Born at Brighton, being descended on his father’s side from a Staffordshire family, while on his mother’s he derived from the Halfords of Leicestershire. He was educated at Ashby-de-la-Zouche Grammar School and received his professional training at Guy’s Hospital. Two years after qualifying he settled in Nottingham (1859) in partnership with John Norton Thompson, MRCS. Later he succeeded to the practice of Dr (afterwards Sir) William Tindal Robertson, MP, and was appointed Physician to the Nottingham General Hospital. He was one of the founders of the Nottingham and Midland Eye Infirmary, and was for some years its Surgeon. He was Senior Physician to the Nottingham General Hospital at the time of his death, and was Chairman of the Medical Committee as well as Physician to the Sherwood Forest Sanatorium for Consumption, and Consulting Medical Officer to the Midland and Great Northern Railways. His duties in connection with these appointments often led to his appearance in courts of law, where his clear, fearless, and straightforward evidence was of the greatest value. His long experience of railway compensation cases made his opinion particularly valuable and supplied him with an almost inexhaustible fund of anecdote. At the meeting of the British Medical Association at Nottingham in 1892 he presided over the Section of Pharmacology and Therapeutics. He was a successful medical practitioner with simple unconventional methods, which inspired confidence. He also loved music and pictures and was in touch with the intellectual and social life of his day. His death occurred at Nottingham on October 27th, 1905. He practised at 1 East Circus Street, Nottingham. Publications:— “Obstruction of Bowel by Large Intestinal Concretion (consisting mainly of Cholesterin): Enterotomy. Death.” – *Lancet*, 1882, ii, 216. “On Defective Nerve Power as a Cause of Bright’s Disease.” – *Brit. Med. Jour.*, 1876, i, 473. “Address to Therapeutic Section of the British Medical Association, Nottingham.” – *Ibid.*, 1892, ii, 250.