“ Born in Westminster in 1859 and educated at Eton, he entered the public service as a clerk in the Duchy of Lancaster Office in 1879, but soon afterwards became a clerk in the House of Commons, where he was latterly Clerk of the Journals; and from 1921 to 1929 he was the first Clerk of the Parliaments of Northern Ireland. he was on the Council of the Navy Records Society, and had served as a lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. It is recorded that he first appeared in print when as a boy at Eton he protested in The Times against certain decorations in the school cloisters. ”