He was educated at the Leys School and Christ Church Oxford, he was called to the Bar in 1900, and then joined the colonial service. He was in the South Seas for many years , and was in charge of the Australian Expedition which took possesion of the isand of Nauru in WW1. For ten years he acted as Colonial Secretary of the Gambia, and he was awarded the C.B.E. in 1927.
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