Education
He was educated there, then at Street Albans School and the University of London, where he graduated in mathematics and physics.
He was educated there, then at Street Albans School and the University of London, where he graduated in mathematics and physics.
He spent his early years in Saskatchewan on an Indian Reservation. After postgraduate research at Rothamsted Experimental Station he gained his Doctor of Philosophy in 1940. During the war he served in the Middle East and then in Italy, where he put his skills in hydrology to good use.
On returning to England he worked at the East Malling Research Station in Kent, his research being written up in Land Use and Water Resources during a year at the University of Cambridge.
In 1973 he was appointed Chief Scientist for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1969 and was knighted in 1977.
He died on 19 December 2004 of a stroke.
Royal Society.