He was Director of the Streatham School of Music and in 1911 lived with his wife Elsie at 40 Copley Park, Streatham
A British conductor and founder of the Goldsmiths Choral Union, for which he was principal conductor and musical director for forty years.
He founded the Streatham School of Music in 1919 and conducted the Streatham Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, producing and conducting the first performances of the Nativity play Bethlehem by Rutland Boughton in London in 1924