He was described in his Times obituary as "the best intellectual property lawyer to have practised in England since Fletcher Moulton" and "cultured, straight-talking lawyer who was without peer on intellectual property issues.
[3] His sister, Margaret Justin Blanco White, was an architect, and through her his brother-in-law was the biologist Conrad Hal Waddington - their daughters, his nieces are the anthropologist Caroline Humphrey and the mathematician Dusa McDuff.
He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1937, and served with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve from 1940 to 1946 (service No.
80865), working on the then-new field of radar, primarily in India and Ceylon.
[citation needed] His 1962 textbook Patents for Inventions is regarded as a classic.