He was born in the village of
Bronant near
Aberystwyth in
Wales on 19 August 1893. He was educated at
Tregaron County School. In the
First World War he served in the
Royal Signal Corps and was wounded. In 1919 he began studying zoology at the
University College of Wales graduating BSc in 1923. He then joined the staff of
Robert Thomson Leiper at the Institute of Agricultural Parasitology in
London. Later he was transferred to their research facility at Winches Farm in
St Albans. In 1924 he undertook a study of potato root eelworm in
Lincolnshire. From 1926 he specialised in studying
nematodes in domestic animals such as sheep and goats. In 1933 he went to
Edinburgh to lecture in
Helminthology at the
Dick Vet College. In 1952 he left Edinburgh to take a post lecturing in Animal Pathology and Parasitology at Cambridge Veterinary School. He died suddenly in
Cambridge on 17 November 1959. ==Publications==