Born on 14 December 1850 and educated at Eton and Brasenose College, Oxford, he was ordained in 1874. Following a curacy at "St Mark’s, Lakenham" he emigrated to South Africa where he was a Mission Priest before promotion to be the Archdeacon of Kimberley and Rector of St Cyprian's Church (where he served through the Siege of Kimberley), then Dean of Bloemfontein. In 1905 he became Bishop of St Helena, a post he held until his death on 7 March 1930.