Career
Born in Tottenham in 1915, he played 219 matches for Middlesex as a right arm fast medium bowler between 1934 and 1951. He took 637 wickets at 25.13 with a best of 8 for 59. He took 5 wickets in an innings 26 times and 10 wickets in a match on 3 occasions.
He then turned to umpiring, standing in the England v South Africa test at Lord"s in 1955 and the England v West Indies match at Birmingham in 1963.
He died in Essex in 1983.
