Educated at Westminster Hospital, London University (University College), and the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland. He was at one time Surgeon to the Liverpool Fever and Workhouse Hospitals, and Professor of Animal Physiology at Queen's College, Liverpool. He then went into general practice at Upton, near Birkenhead. In 1855 he moved to Myrtle Cottage at Poulton with Seacombe, in the neighbourhood of Birkenhead, and there he was Medical Officer of the Wallasey District of the Wirrall Union, Hon Surgeon of the Wallasey Ladies' Charity, and at a later date Hon Surgeon, afterwards Consulting Surgeon, of the Wallasey Dispensary, Surgeon to the 3rd Company of the Cheshire Volunteer Rifles, Surgeon to the Seacombe Cottage Hospital and Children's Dispensary, and Medical Referee to various Assurance Societies. For a few years before retiring he practised at Egremont (Falkland House). After his retirement he lived at Brookfield Cottage, Dingle Lane, Liverpool. He was at one time Local Secretary for the Liverpool Ray Society, Fellow of the Anthropological Society of London, and Treasurer of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool. His death occurred on June 20th, 1896. Publication:- *The Fauna of Liverpool*. Written c. 1860.