[1] He played six first-class matches for Cambridge University Cricket Club between 1882 and 1883.
[3] He was educated at Rossall School and Cambridge University,[3] where he was a scholar at Pembroke College, graduating B.A.
[4] He later became a Church of England clergyman, being ordained deacon in 1886 and priest in 1887 by the Bishop of St Albans.
He was an assistant master at Elstree School (1884-94), and curate of Aldenham (1886-88) and Cheshunt (1894-97) in Hertfordshire,[1] and in Shropshire vicar of Meole Brace 1897-1930 and rector of Sutton near Shrewsbury 1899-1931.
[1] Bather married at Holy Trinity, Meole Brace, on 6 January 1903, Ida Agnes MacDonell Wanklyn, daughter of Frederick Lumb Wanklyn, of Buenos Aires, Argentina.