Educated at University College and Hospital. He was elected House Surgeon and acted as Surgical Registrar for the year 1900-1901, when he was appointed Assistant Surgeon, succeeding to the full Surgeoncy in 1909. He was Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery with Sir Rickman J Godlee (qv) as Home Professor, and was a Fellow of University College. From 1901-1906 he was Surgeon in Charge of Out-patients at the Victoria Hospital for Children in Tite Street, Chelsea, and from 1906-1910 he was full Surgeon. He was awarded the John Hunter Medal and the Triennial Prize at the Royal College of Surgeons (1901-1903) for his dissertation on "The Pathological Conditions arising from Imperfect Closure of the Visceral Clefts". A man of singular brilliance with a genius for friendship, he met with a severe motor accident in 1910. He was compelled to resign all his appointments and to retire to Bexhill, where he died unmarried on Tuesday, March 18th, 1913.