 He held special diplomas in the teaching of blind and of deaf people, and retired as the headmaster of Gorleston in 1943, having been a teacher for 40 years, and served for the next two years as Secretary of the National Institute for the Blind.A sometime member of Great Yarmouth Borough Council and its education committee, he was elected at the 1945 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Lowestoft in Suffolk.