He was educated at Leighton Park School in Reading along with his brother, Thomas, and numerous other well-known Quaker luminaries of the day.
He initially worked in his father's hugely successful Far Eastern Trading business before standing as a Liberal candidate for Northwich in 1929, moving to the National Liberal Party and being elected for Eddisbury in 1945.
Helen Diana, daughter of George Kemp, 1st Baron Rochdale, in 1928.
He died in January 1986, aged 87, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son John.
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