He graduated from Christ Church with a first class degree in 1935, and after two years as a lecturer there was elected a Fellow of Trinity College in 1939 (the last Fellow to be so elected before the outbreak of war).
He graduated from Christ Church with a first class degree in 1935, and was awarded the Gladstone Memorial Exhibition. After two years as a lecturer at Christ Church, he was elected a Fellow of Trinity College in 1939 (the last Fellow to be so elected before the outbreak of war).