Painter, draughtsman and teacher, born in Marlow, Buckinghamshire. He was educated at Haileybury College and studied art at Regent Street Polytechnic School of Art, 1922–5, his teachers including Harry Watson, and the Royal Academy Schools, 1925–8, under Charles Sims and George Clausen. For five years shortly after World War II he taught painting and drawing at Sir John Cass School of Arts and Crafts. Showed at RA, RP, NS and elsewhere. He shared his time between London and Ickford, Buckinghamshire.