Educated at Guy's Hospital under Sir Astley Cooper, and contributed to Cooper's Collection in the Guy's Museum several specimens of calculi, as also to the College Collection. He practised for some forty years at Chichester, for thirty of which he was Surgeon to the Infirmary. His chief operation was lithotomy, and he contributed to the British Medical Journal an account of three cases in which he had been successful in cutting the patient for the second time. He was also Poor Law Officer up to two years before his death, when he was given a pension. He died in North Street, Chichester, on January 20th, 1872. His three sons followed their father as members of the medical profession.