Education
He was educated at Oxford University, and was a chemistry teacher at Oundle School 1925-1964.
He was educated at Oxford University, and was a chemistry teacher at Oundle School 1925-1964.
Foreign much of his time there, he was a housemaster. Latterly he was Second Master. He published papers on the vegetation of coastal Cornwall and Norfolk (places he had known from boyhood), and on that of Northamptonshire Jurassic limestone.
He served on the Council of the British Ecological Society, and was active as a journal editors
He has been described as, "a modest man, courteous, patient, popular with students and staff". An early review remarks, "This book, so clearly and unpretentiously written, so admirably illustrated, is imaginatively stimulating to a quite unusual degree.
Number fringe of beach or, scrubby headland, no strip of brackish marsh, no tidal estuary can seem, when one has read it, devoid of interest.
He was elected Member of the Royal Archaeological Institute in 1950. He was a member of several natural history clubs and trusts in Northamptonshire and, later, Cambridgeshire.