Educated at the Leeds School of Medicine, University College, London, and in Paris. He practised for upwards of forty years at Doncaster, in partnership latterly with James Bissell Withington, MRCS. At the time of his death he was Consulting Surgeon to the Doncaster Infirmary and Dispensary, Surgeon to the York Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, and Borough Coroner. It is worth noting that in the latter capacity he held a ten days' inquiry into the cause of the destruction of the Parish Church by fire in February, 1853 - an ancient part of a coroner's duty which is now rarely exercised, except in the City of London. In 1852 he was appointed Surgeon to the 3rd West York Militia, when the Corps was recruited. He accompanied it, when it was embodied at the time of the Crimean War, as far as Berwick and Dublin, but then resigned his post of Surgeon. He died somewhat suddenly at his residence, 13 Hall Gate, Doncaster, on Saturday, March 1st, 1879.