Educated at the Colonial Hospital, Hobart Town, and at King’s College and Guy’s Hospital, London. He was at one time in practice in Hobart Town, where he was in charge of the Colonial Hospital and St Mary’s Hospital, as well as being a member of the Medical Board of Tasmania. He then removed to Sydney, where he held many important appointments, being at the time of his death Consulting Surgeon to the Sydney Infirmary and St Vincent’s Hospital, Medical Adviser to the Government, President of the Board of Visitors to Lunatic Asylums, Examiner in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney, and a member of the Medical Board. He died at Sydney at 172 Albert Terrace in November, 1875.