- He was educated at Harrow School.
- Was nominated for Broadway's 1957 Tony Award as author of Best Play nominee "Separate Tables."
- His play The Deep Blue Sea is based on the suicide of his former lover Kenneth Morgan.
- His play, "Flare Path," at the Griffin Theatre Company in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2013 Non-Equity Joseph Jefferson Award for Play Production.
- He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1958 Queen's Birthday Honours List and made a Knight Bachelor in the 1971 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to the theatre.
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