[2] After this he studied for ordination at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford followed by a curacy at St Philemon, Toxteth.
[5] Between 1929 and 1933 he was Vicar of St Chrysostom, Everton and then until 1937 he was Chaplain to the Mercers' Company and Secretary of the Evangelical Churchmens Ordination Council, with an office in St Mary Woolnoth in the City of London.
From 1945 until his retirement in 1968 he served as firstly Vicar and Rural Dean and then Bishop of Tonbridge.
[6] He was consecrated a bishop on 6 January 1959, by Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey.
Described by The Times[8] as "one of the most trusted of his generation of evangelical leaders" he died on 12 December 1979, the day before his 83rd birthday.