Early Life and Ordained Ministry
He was educated at Malvern College and Brasenose College, Oxford. After a period of study at Wells Theological College he was ordained in 1910, his first post being a curacy at Alverstoke. After distinguished wartime service in which he received the Military Cross for bravery at Gallipolli, he held Vicar incumbencies at Poplar, London, Hackney and Hornsey where he was additionally Rural Dean),
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