Born at Knowle, Warwickshire, he was articled to a general practitioner of the neighbourhood, studied at Queen's College, Birmingham, and graduated in Arts and Medicine at St Andrews. He settled in Kidderminster and practised throughout at Morningside, Kidderminster, latterly in partnership with Henry Edward Langford. He was active both in municipal and parliamentary politics, was a member of the Corporation and four times Mayor of Kidderminster, also Medical Officer of Health and Medical Referee to various Assurance Societies. Three or four years before his death he was temporarily disabled by an attack of apoplexy, but was able to resume work; a few weeks previously he had presided at a meeting to consider the cause of a severe epidemic of enteric fever then raging in the town, when an ingravescent form of apoplexy recurred whilst he was on his morning round; by the evening he had lost speech, and he died three days later, on October 19th, 1884. He had sought relaxation in horticulture, frequently contributed to horticultural journals, and spent the afternoon of his last day before taking to bed in visiting his much-loved greenhouse and garden.