He was educated at Minchenden Grammar School and Imperial College London.

He graduated BSc in 1953 and received his PhD from the University of London in 1958, with a thesis entitled "Properties of waveguides containing ferrites with special reference to waveguides of circular cross-section".

[2] He was then Professor of Electronic Engineering at Queen Mary, University of London from 1968 to 1997.

[3] He was vice-president and treasurer of URSI (the International Union of Radio Science) from 1993 to 1999.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1990 and appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for "services to the Ministry of Defence" in the 1996 Birthday Honours.