Education
Balliol College.
Balliol College.
Born into an ecclesiastical family on 11 May 1906 and educated at Monkton Combe School and Balliol College, Oxford, he was ordained in 1933. His first post was as a Curate at Penistone after which he was Padre to the Tanker Fleet of the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company and then Vicar of Forest Row. When World World War II came he enlisted as a Chaplain in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during which he was twice decorated.
When peace returned he was Vicar of Rogate and Rural Dean of Midhurst before his elevation to the Deanery.
After this he was Rector of Street Peter’s, Peebles before retiring in 1971. "A sailor"s padre to the end", he died on 18 December 1992.