Born at Wimborne, Dorset, the son of a clergyman. Entering the Navy at an early age, he found himself not sufficiently robust to continue in that service. Accordingly he took to medicine and was educated in the schools of Great Windmill Street and St George's Hospital. He was gazetted Assistant Surgeon in the Life Guards on July 25th, 1821; retired on half pay on June 21st, 1824, and commuted his half pay November 6th, 1832. Later he assisted Sir Benjamin Brodie in private practice. He was elected Assistant Surgeon to St George's Hospital in 1834, and Surgeon in 1848, when he resigned the office of Surgeon to the Lock Hospital - held by him for many years. His service at St George's Hospital, till he retired in 1861, was most faithful and efficient. In the whole of it he was only once absent for more than a week save on one occasion when ill health prevented his attendance. He was a most dexterous operator, and in cases of lithotomy was uniformly successful. He could use the knife with the left hand equally as well as with the right. He was rarely equalled in the facility with which he performed perineal section. Cutler never lectured, never spoke at Medical Societies, never wrote on professional subjects, yet obtained a practice and an influence over such a number of people of importance as few of his confreres could boast of. Through his connection with the Lock Hospital he enjoyed as large a practice in venereal diseases as any since the time of John Pearson. The older pupils of St George's Hospital may recollect him occasionally visiting a patient in the hospital early in the morning, an overcoat covering the 'pink', previous to a run with the royal staghounds, as Sir Philip Crampton might have been seen in Dublin in bygone days. He died at his residence, 15 New Burlington Street, W, on September 7th, 1874. Mrs Cutler, a daughter of Sir Thomas Plumer, Master of the Rolls, survived him, as did also a daughter and a son - a Chancery barrister. His portrait is in volume ii of *The Medical Profession in All Countries* (1874). At the time of his death he was Consulting Surgeon to both St George's and the Lock Hospitals.