A newspaper of the time when describing him mentioned his "consummate skill", "very few young men have commanded the admiration of so many intelligent people" and "he is a young man of great intellectual distinction and is endowed with a judgement of rare clearness and sagacity"[REF] .
In 1909, he married Mabel Winifred Mary, M.B.E daughter of Col E.P. Mainwaring of the Indian Army.