Journalist. Arrived in New South Wales in 1887; educated at Double Bay public school; spent four years in outback shearing sheds; joined Australian Workers' Union, executive member and delegate to the Trades and Labor Council (TLC); joined staff worker in Sydney in 1903; assisted to found Australian Writers and Artists' Union in 1910 which amalgamated with Australian Journalists' Association in 1913, New South Wales president and federal vice president from 1915 until 1916; member of defence committee in 1917 strike, convicted of incitement; active anti-conscriptionist; visited the United States of America in 1919; after defeat in 1930 became unemployed, freelance journalist and chief advertising staff from 1931 until 1932, part time editor with New South Wales Bookstall in 1936, editor from 1936 until 1937, public relations officer George Fitzpatrick Pty Limited, advertising agency in 1941; school broadcasts and regular talks for Australian Broadcasting Corporation from 1936 until 1949; director of North Brighton Suburb Estate Property Limited, Randwich Co-operative Building Society and Harmonic Resonator Pty Limited; investments mining and property in Sydney; director of 'Labor Daily' in 1926; foundation member of the National Roads and Motorists Association; councillor from 1924 until 1928; member of Board of Fire Commissioners from 1936 until 1954; trustee of Public Library of New South Wales from 1916 until 1958, Mitchell Library committee from 1924 until 1958; foundation member of Henry Lawson Memorial Trust in 1922; executive of Royal Australian Historical Society from 1943 until 1947, fellow in 1943; councillor of Australian Society of Genealogists in 1945, fellow in 1946; author in 1933, 1942 and pamphlets; compiler index to early settlers now in the Mitchell Library; Freemason.