Born on 22 February 1876 in Belfast
School - Merchiston Castle, Edinburgh
Admitted to Clare College on 16 March 1894
Matriculated at Michaelmas 1894
B.A. 1897
Rugby Football 'blue,' 1896
Played for Ireland, 1899 and 1900; in the Anglo-Australian XV, 1899
Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Judicature Ireland
Served in the Great War, 1914-19 (Major, R.A.O.C.; D.A.Q.M.G.; mentioned in dispatches)