[4] He also played against the MCC and Sir Julien Cahn's XI before finishing his cricket career with two matches against Australia in September.
[3] After leaving military service in 1946, he married his wife Nancy, and became Deputy Secretary to the government of Burma in Rangoon.
He was in the next room when Aung San and six members of the Burma cabinet were assassinated on 19 July 1947.
He left Burma in 1948 and joined the Commonwealth Relations Office, and had a series of overseas posts in New Zealand, Singapore, Australia, Nigeria and as High Commissioner to Jamaica between 1970 and 1973, also serving as ambassador to Haiti.
He was knighted on his retirement in 1977, but continued in some political roles, including the Price Commission, and a post in Bermuda.