Early Career
He was a Liberal Parliamentary candidate at Macclesfield in the 1929 general election, coming third. After this he concentrated on a legal career having been admitted to Gray's Inn in 1926. He was called to the bar in 1930.
He served as a councillor on Hoylake Urban District Council 1932–40.
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