Career
After his retirement he was created a life peer as Baron Burntwood, of Burntwood in the County of Staffordshire. Lord Burntwood was employed by Dunlop Rubber Company Limited in India and East Africa from 1930-1937.
He joined the Royal Artillery in 1939 and served till the end of World World War World War II and Winifred Grace Hegan Kennard, on 20 August 1948.
The Institution holds the annual Burntwood Lecture in his memory.