Studied at University College, London, and at Queen's College, Birmingham. He first practised at 8 Newhall Street, and at Soho Hill, Handsworth, Birmingham, and was Surgeon to the National Guardian Life Assurance Society. He then went into practice at Rothbury House, Llandudno, was Physician to the Sanatorium, and died there on August 26th, 1888. He gained the Warneford Prize for the year 1838 with an essay on "The Valvular Structure of the Veins Anatomically and Physiologically Considered", an essay having the objective of the Bridgwater Treatises. It was published in 1839 with the Oxford imprint. In 1858 he contributed to the *British Medical Journal*, p. 370, a paper on the "Topography and Climate of Llandudno".