Born: 15 September 1894, Inglewood, Victoria, Australia
Entered: 27 November 1911, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly

Left Society of Jesus: 06 June 1918

Father a retired Police Constable and with his mother live at “Carmel”, Golf Links Avenue, Oakleigh, Victoria.

Fourth of five boys (2 died in infancy) and he has five sisters.

Early education was at a convent school in and Northcote, in 1908 he went to St Patrick’s College Melbourne for two years.

1911-1913: St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg,, Novitiate
1913-1917: Rathfarnham Castle, studying Rhetoric and at UCD
1917-1918: Belvedere College SJ, Regency