Career
Born in Middlesex he qualified as a Licentiate of the College of Preceptors. He became Head of Junior School at University School, Hastings, before leaving to found Seaford College at Corsica Hall, Seaford, East Sussex in 1884, where he served as inaugural Headmaster until 1920. The College would later relocate to Lavington Park, Petworth in 1946, but retain its original name.
A Colonel in the 1st Sussex Engineer Volunteers he was awarded the Volunteer Officers" Decoration.
He died in Cranleigh, Surrey.