 He began his career with a curacy in Holmfirth  after which he with the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa in Nyasaland.In 1927 he came to the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield and was its Principal from 1933–41.He became Bishop of Argyll and The Isles in 1942, and in 1952 Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church; retiring from both posts in 1962.