Background
A member of a distinguished family, he was born on 23 June 1899 and educated at Leeds Grammar School and Trinity College, Oxford.
A member of a distinguished family, he was born on 23 June 1899 and educated at Leeds Grammar School and Trinity College, Oxford.
Trinity College.
Ordained in 1924 his first post was as a preacher at Street Andrew’s, Huddersfield. He was then Chaplain of Hertford College, Oxford and a Lecturer in Theology at the University, being elected Fellow in 1926. From 1931 he was an SPG Missionary in Tinnevelly before returning to England to be Perpetual Curate of Street Mary's Charlton Kings.
Appointed the Bishop of Madras in 1942 he served the Diocese until 1954.
After that he was Professor of Church History at the United Theological College, Bangalore, 1955-1960. His final post was as Rector of Todwick, where he also served as an Assistant Bishop within the Diocese of Sheffield.
He died on 11 February 1986.