Painter and teacher, born in Swaffham, Norfolk. He studied at Woolwich Polytechnic School of Art, 1927–32, with Herbert Buckley, then Royal College of Art, 1932–6, under William Rothenstein, gaining associate status in 1935. Showed at RA, NEAC, RBA and in Doncaster, Gateshead and Sunderland. Public collections in Leicester and Wolverhampton hold examples. Lived in Plumstead, southeast London, and later in Keston, Kent. Liss Fine Art posthumously sold his work.