 He became an assistant master at a school in Eastbourne, but in 1903 joined the Transvaal Education Department.Transferring to India, he was successively Professor of History at Elphinstone College, Bombay, Assistant Secretary of the Indian Education Department, Secretary to the Calcutta University Commission, Director of Public Instruction of the Punjab (from 1920), and Educational Commissioner of the Government of India.He retired in 1936.