He was born into an eminent ecclesiastical family in 1884[N 1] and educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford before embarking on an ecclesiastical career with a curacy at Dover. During the Great War, he served from June, 1917, as a Temporary Chaplain to the Forces, and was regarded as ‘A1’.[4] Inner city posts followed[N 2] before promotion to the Suffragan Bishopric of Stepney, a post he held until transferring to the Deanery at Salisbury sixteen years later. He was described as a brilliant scholar in his youth.[1]
In 1917, he married Rosamund Vere née Smyth; the couple had two sons. He died on 16 September 1978.[1]
