Born at Peckham, studied at Guy’s Hospital, and after qualifying in 1846, acted for three years as ship’s medical officer on three voyages to the East round the Cape. He then received a Guy’s prize nomination to a commission in the Bengal Army in 1852; he served in the Burmese War of 1853, and afterwards at civil stations. At Nagpore he was Superintendent of the Lunatic Asylum, Medical Officer of the Central Gaol, District Surgeon to the GIP Railway, and from 1868 Principal of the School of Medicine. Finally he became Deputy Surgeon General in the Lahore Division of the Indian Army and Inspector-General of Hospitals. He was the author of “Indian Medical Service – Past and Present” in which he described the important services rendered to a multitude of different races by the British Imperial Control. He retired in 1883 with the rank of Surgeon General; for some years he lived at Bath, later at Eastbourne, where he died in 1911. Publications: “Indian Medical Service – Past and Present.” – *Imperial Asiatic Quarterly Record*, 1902. Various other papers, medical and surgical, to Indian Journals.