Education
After this he studied for ordination at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford followed by a curacy at Street Philemon, Toxteth.
After this he studied for ordination at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford followed by a curacy at Street Philemon, Toxteth.
Born on 13 December 1896 he was educated at the City of Oxford School and (after wartime service with the Queen"s Own Oxfordshire Hussars) Street Edmund Hall, Oxford. Between 1929 and 1933 he was Vicar of Street Chrysostom, Everton and then until 1937 he was Chaplain to the Mercers" Company and Secretary of the Evangelical Churchmens Ordination Council, with an office in Street Mary Woolnoth in the City of London. From 1937 to 1945 he was Vicar of Street Stephens, East Twickenham.
From 1945 until his retirement in 1968 he served as firstly Vicar and Rural Dean and then Bishop of Tonbridge.
From 1968 until his death in 1978 he was Assistant Bishop in the Guildford Diocese. Described by The Times as “one of the most trusted of his generation of evangelical leaders” he died on 12 December 1979, the day before his 83rd birthday.