Background
He was born in England and educated at Exeter.
He was born in England and educated at Exeter.
He was the New Zealand High Commissioner to Australia from 1970 to 1973. He owned retail furnishing and cabinet-making firms in Hamilton and had other farming and property interests. He was active in the National Party from its earliest years.
Initially in the Waikato Junior Nationals in the 1940s and was on the South Auckland and Waikato Division then the Waikato Division executives.
He was on the Dominion publicity committee, and unsuccessfully contested the party’s presidency in 1966 against Ned Holt and 1973 against George Chapman.
