For his education he attended Highgate, Haileybury and St. John's College, Oxford.
At Oxford he studied jurisprudence, leading to his being called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1911.
To this end he was founder and editor of Popular View, a publication 'devoted to the furtherance of their interests'.
He carried out a series of mergers, buying Jarrolds, Hurst and Blackett, Skeffington, Selwyn and Blount, Rider and Co., Andrew Melrose and Geographia Limited.
[3] In 1949 he opened a "National Gallery of British Sports and Pastimes", at Hutchinson House, off Oxford Street, but financial troubles led to its quick demise and the collection was sold in 1951.