Career
Educated at Street Augustine’s School Dewsbury and Lincoln Theological College, he was ordained in 1909 and began his career with a Curacy at Chatham. He was then successively Vicar of Street Mary the Virgin at Strood in Kent, Rural Dean of Walsall and a Canon Residentiary at Lichfield Cathedral before being consecrated to the Episcopate in 1939, a post he held for 19 years. A great cricketer, his Times obituary described him as “a man most at home amongst the artisans of urban parishes”.
