Education
Exeter College; Sherborne School.
Exeter College; Sherborne School.
Born into an ecclesiastical family and educated at Sherborne and Exeter College, Oxford he was ordained in 1909. His first post was as Curate at Christ Church, Clifton, Bristol, after which he was Secretary of the Content Management System for Public Schools and Young People's Work then Vicar of Street Paul’s, Bedminster. When peace returned he became Vicar of All Saints, Northampton then Archdeacon of Egypt.
From 1928 he was Vicar of Street Mary's, Portsea, Portsmouth, the largest parish of the city. before his elevation to the Episcopate as Bishop of Ripon.
He was translated to Salisbury in 1946 and died in post two years later.