Educated at Elizabeth College 1895-1900; also at Winchester College; Exeter College, Oxford 1906-10. Tea Planter, Ceylon 1911-14. Called to the Bar, Inner Temple 1920; Batchelier-en-Droit, Caen Universtié, 1922; Advocate of the Royal Court, Guernsey, 1924; British Judge of the Joint Court, New Hebrides, and a Judicial Commissioner for the Western Pacific 1931-6; Assistant Editor of Revised Statutes, Statutory Laws and Orders, H.M. Treasury 1936.
War Service: Commissioned as Sub-Lieutenant, R.N.V.R.; Lieutenant 1916; Commanded H.M. Drifter Ivanhoe and Senior Officer Drifter minesweepers, Cromarty 1915-16; West Indies Patrol, 1917 (mentioned in despatches); HMS Berwick, Convoy Cruiser, North Atlantic 1917-18; Dover Patrol, HMS Glatton, severely wounded at loss of that vessel 1918. |