Career
He was born in Thornhill, Yorkshire in 1869 and was educated at Winchester College. He was also a Brigadier-General who fought in the Second Boer War and the First World War, and received the Defence Science Organisation in 1915. From 1924 to 1935 he was Honorary Colonel of the 5th Battalion, King"s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.
He died at George, Cape Province, South Africa in 1948.