 He attended Queen's College in Georgetown, and in 1921 won the Guyana Scholarship, achieving First-Class Honours at the Oxford and Cambridge Higher Examination, with five distinctions in Latin, French, English, Mathematics and Religious Knowledge, placing him first among candidates from Barbados and Guyana.At the University of Cambridge, he continued to excel in Mathematics.taking first-class honours in Part 1 of the Mathematical Tripos in 1923, and graduating Senior Optime in 1925.