Born at North Stoneham, near Southampton, and was educated at Hyde Abbey School, Winchester. He was apprenticed to W G Wickham of that city, and finished his professional education at St Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals and at King's College, London. He became House Surgeon at Winchester Hospital, and later settled at Bruton, Somersetshire, where he married, became Surgeon to the Hospital, and acquired a large practice. Here he greatly distinguished himself as one of the early and successful ovariotomists at a time when ovariotomy was regarded with apprehension. He had the credit of recording an early case of pregnancy and parturition in a patient from whom a diseased ovary had been removed. From Bruton he went to Mitcham in order to enlarge the sphere of his experience. Here, however, he was crippled by an insidious disease of the spinal cord, against which he fought with signal courage, continuing his custom of visiting the obstetrical and gynaelogical departments of hospitals as soon as he felt at all better. At the same time he resumed his writing for the medical press, but his sufferings increased, and after a painful period he died at Chippenham, Wiltshire, on April 18th, 1872. The *Lancet* is of opinion that a career of great usefulness and ability was thus cut short. Publications:- He was author of various papers on his special subject. These include: "A Successful Case of Ovariotomy by a Large Abdominal Section." - *Lond. Med. Gaz*, 1849, N.S. ix, 366. "On Ovariotomy, with a Table of all the Cases recorded in England previous to 1849." - *Prov. Med. and Surg. Jour.*, xiii, 622. "A Successful Case of Parturition in a Patient who had previously undergone Ovariotomy by a large Incision." - *Med. Times and Gaz.*, ii, 597. Various papers on ovariotomy in *Lancet* (1854-1859) and *Assoc. Jour.* (1854).