Born in Birmingham, he was trained for the WM ministry at Didsbury College. Described as 'always on quest after beauty and truth, … a poet and essayist of no mean order', he was a regular contributor to the Methodist Recorder and the ''London Quarterly and Holborn Review. The Unveiling and other Poems was published in 1937, a selection of his Recorder articles in 1947 and a volume of literary essays, The Priest and the Siren in 1953. He had a longstanding friendship with a kindred spirit, Gilbert Thomas. Despite his 'inate shyness', he was an active member of the Fellowship of the Kingdom, of which he was a founder member. He retired to Winchcombe in 1949 and died on 4 January 1962.