Career
In 1908 he was involved in mapping the route for the railway-line from Kalgoorlie, Western Australia to Portuguese Augusta, South Australia. In 1921 he was appointed commissioner of the Department of the North-West (of Western Australia) based in Broome. As commissioner he recommended a survey of agricultural land at the Ord River, the planting of cotton and the development of the Kimberley region.
In 1946 he was appointed assistant-director of public works, and in 1949 chairman of the Western Australian Transport Board, retiring in 1952.
In World World War II he was posted to Army Headquarters, Melbourne. As colonel, then brigadier, he occupied senior engineering staff posts.
In retirement, he wrote an autobiography, The Turning Wheel (1960). She died in 1918. She became a prolific author and also wrote several plays.
They had two children, a girl and a boy.