Privately; Downing College, Cambridge. Educated with a view of qualifying for a position as land agent, or at an agricultural college. In addition to spending several years in learning farming in various parts of the country, served articles with a firm of estate agents in order to become acquainted with details of estate management and of office work.
Lecturer in Rural Economics at the newly formed Agricultural College, Wye, Kent, 1894. Professor of Agriculture aud Vice-Principal, 1895. Agricultural adviser to Lord Milner, 1902.
Director of Agriculture for the Transvaal, 1902-1910.
Member of Legislative Council, 1903. Made extensive tours in United States and Canada in order to investigate the system of agricultural education and administration in vogue in these countries, 1900 and 1908.
Member of Land Settlement Board, 1902-South. And of Transvaal Indigency Com mission, 1906-1908. A Fellow of the Surveyors’ Institution.
Acting Secretary of Agriculture for the Union of South Africa.
Clubs: Savile; Pretoria.
