Biography

Born Cape Town, Cape Colony, 18th November 1894.

Educated at Diocesan College (Bishop’s) and South Africa College.

Rhodes Scholarship to study at Brasenose College, Oxford, 1914.

Lieutenant Corporal in 7th Oxford and Buckinghamshire light infantry during the First World War. Wounded in action and mentioned in dispatches.

Honours degree in Greats (1920), First Class in Jurisprudence (1921) and Bachelor of Common Law (1922).

Worked at the International Labour Office and as personal assistant to Secretary General of the League of Nations, responsible for Permanent Mandates Commission 1922-23.

Law tutor and Fellow at New College, Oxford 1923-30.

Laura Spelman Rockefeller Fellow 1926.

Cassel Professor of International Relations 1930-36.

Montague Burton Professor of International Relations 1936-62.

Married to Marion Johnston 1939-77.

Chairman, South Africa Society 1964-75.

Honorary Doctorate, University of Pretoria, 1971.

Honorary President, South African Institute of International Affairs, 1977.

Died Cape Town, South Africa, 10th March 1978.