Educationalist, born at Pillerton Hersey Warwick[shire. He trained at Westminster College 1925-27 and taught in North London. He gained his BA, MA, PhD and Diploma in Education at London University and returned to Westminster College in 1936 as lecturer in English and Education. During the War he served as an education officer in the RAF, returning to the college in 1945 as Senior Lecturer in charge of resident students. He became Vice-Principal in 1953 and was involved in the college's move to Oxford.

His interests ranged from art, music and poetry to boxing, on which he published an anthology, The Noble Art. His doctoral thesis was published in 1940 as Methodism and the Literature of the Eighteenth Century, with its final chapter on 'The influence of Methodism on the Romantic Revival and on the literature of the age'. In 1944 he contributed to the current educational debate in Living Education, in which he offered 'some views on education between the wars and its prospects in the future'.

He was a local preacher for 38 years and had been a circuit steward at Westminster Central Hall. In his closing years he suffered from bronchitis. He died on 21 June 1961.

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