Artist in watercolour and associated media and teacher, born in Birkenhead, Cheshire. He studied at Liverpool School of Art with Will C Penn. He taught there, 1937–40 and 1946–50, during World War II serving in the Royal Air Force as a cartographic draughtsman. Was principal of St Helens School of Art, 1950–74. Group shows included Wirral Society of Arts of which he was a member, Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, Liverpool Academy of Art shows and at Rob Piercey Gallery, Portmadog. Had solo shows at St Helens Museum and Art Gallery and Williamson Art Gallery in Birkenhead. The Walker and Williamson hold his work. His later work included “studies of Welsh landscape, the rugged terrain of remote valleys, southern Snowdonia mostly”. Lived in Bromborough, Wirral.