Born on December 4th, 1866, son of an employé at Woolwich Arsenal. Educated at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, where he was House Surgeon and Clinical Assistant in the Orthopaedic Department. He entered the Indian Medical Service as Surgeon on July 28th, 1891, was promoted Major on July 28th, 1903, and Lieutenant-Colonel on July 28th, 1911. After he had been three years in the Army he was posted to civil employ in Bengal (September, 1894), and spent the rest of his service there. He was Resident Medical Officer of the Calcutta Medical College Hospital from March, 1895, to September, 1903. In May, 1903, he was appointed Professor of Surgery. About the year 1904 he was deputed on special duty to Kabul to treat Habibullah, the Amir of Afghanistan, for an injury, and in the winter of 1911-1912 was on special duty on the staff of His Majesty George V during the Indian visit for the Coronation Durbar. He received the Afghan orders of Izzat and Hamcat on March 7th, 1907. His death occurred on March 30th, 1918, when he was on leave at Wellington, Nilgiri Hills, Southern India.