Educated at Guy’s Hospital, where after qualification he held the posts of House Surgeon, Surgical Registrar, and Senior Demonstrator of Anatomy. He won University distinction, being University Medical Scholar and Medallist in Surgery in 1861. For three years, 1866-1869, he was Surgeon to the Metropolitan Hospital, where he is said to have been a successful operator. In 1869 he settled in Exeter, residing at 19 Southernhay, where he lived till his death on Oct 31st, 1902. In 1870 he was appointed Registrar, and in 1872 Surgeon to the West of England Eye Infirmary and to the Devon and Exeter Hospital. He was elected Surgeon to the Devon and Exeter Hospital on Dec 15th, 1871, in succession to P C de la Garde (qv), resigned on March 7th, 1895, on approaching the age limit, and was appointed Consulting Surgeon and a Governor of the Hospital. He was an excellent anatomist, an able operator, a surgical consultant of wide experience, a distinguished eye surgeon, as well as a shrewd observer of men and things. He is said to have been ambidextrous, unimpressionable, and cautious almost to a fault. As a man he was over six feet in height and his face in repose was sad and depressing. Busy professionally, he found time to play the violoncello with skill and to be Treasurer of the Exeter Musical Society. He was also an expert fly-fisher. He left a widow, Gertrude, née Moss, and five children. His photograph – an excellent likeness – hangs in the lobby of the Exeter and Devon Hospital. Publications:– “On the Functions of the Buccal Branch of the Fifth Nerve.” – *Jour. Anat. and Physiol*., 1868, ii, 325. “Dissections of Acephalous Monsters,” written in conjunction with J Braxton Hicks. – *Guy’s Hosp. Rep.*, 1867, xiii (3rd series), 456. “Abnormalities observed in the Dissecting Room at Guy’s Hospital, Sessions 1866-7 and 1867-8,” written in conjunction with Drs Pye-Smith and Phillips. *Ibid.*, 1868, xiv, 436.