Background
His father and son were bishops.
priest Anglican cleric Dean of Hereford
His father and son were bishops.
He was educated at Charterhouse and New College, Oxford and was ordained in 1912.
His first post was a curacy at Street Peter’s, Petersfield after which he was a temporary World War I Chaplain. Following this he was Priest in charge of Street Columba’s, Argyll, Domestic Chaplain to the Archbishop of York and Warden of the Dock Street Mission, Southampton. He then held incumbencies at Stoke Abbott and Portsea, Portsmouth.
Later he was Rural Dean of Cleethorpes then Bournemouth.
In 1943 he became Archdeacon of Winchester and four years later Dean of Hereford, a post he held until his retirement in 1961.