[1] He was educated at Westminster School and went on to Christ Church, Oxford, graduating in 1929.
[2] He was then awarded a Laming Travelling Fellowship at Queen's College, Oxford, which meant spending nine months learning modern languages overseas.
[1] After graduation he entered the Diplomatic Service and over the course of his career he served in Madrid, Berlin, Peking, Beirut, Rio de Janeiro and Rome.
[3] Whilst serving in Peking he became engaged to the daughter of Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugesson, who at the time was the British Ambassador there, they married on 14 February 1939.
[3] He was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 1951 Birthday Honours[4] and became the 5th Baronet, on the death of his father, in 1952.