Born on December 7th, 1815, received his professional training at the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland, and at Guy's and the London Hospitals. He then studied for some time in Paris and entered the Army in 1840, being gazetted Assistant Surgeon on the Staff on October 9th. He first served with the 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers), to which he was gazetted on Sept 24th, 1841. With his regiment he passed through an epidemic of yellow fever in the West Indies, he himself suffering from a severe attack. He was gazetted Staff Surgeon (2nd Class) on June 16th, 1848, and joined the 31st Regiment of Foot on July 18th, 1851. On June 3rd, 1853, he became Surgeon to the 11th Dragoons, and served in Bulgaria and through the Crimean Campaign, being present at the affair of Bulganac, the Battles of Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman, Tchernaya, and the Siege and Fall of Sebastopol. For his services he received the Medal with Four Clasps, the Turkish Medal, and the Order of Knight of the Legion of Honour. He became Surgeon Major of his regiment in 1860, was placed on the Staff in April, 1865, and retired on half pay in 1884 or 1886 with the rank of Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals. "He was an ideal regimental surgeon, well educated, enthusiastic in his profession, beloved and trusted by officers and men, ever watchful and painstaking in all that concerned the health and well-being of his regiment, a military surgeon every inch of him, a high-toned honourable man, a kind and steadfast friend." After his retirement he resided at 58 Chester Square, SW, and was for many years Surgeon to the Duke of York's Royal Military School, where the orphan boys looked on him as their father - so kind, careful, and considerate was he of them. His services never received the acknowledgement they merited. He was nearly related to Sir Richard Francis Burton, the famous traveller and scholar. He died at Leigh House, Surbiton, on August 21st, 1900.