Born at Bath; he came of a musical family and was himself an accomplished pianist. He studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and also visited Leipzig, Vienna, and Paris. He held various posts: House Surgeon to the Royal United Hospital, Bath, and to St Mark's Hospital for Fistula, London. He was also for a time Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy at St Bartholomew's Hospital; Clinical Assistant at the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields; Clinical Assistant in the Ophthalmic Department, and Demonstrator of Anatomy, at the London Hospital; and Surgical Assistant at Charing Cross Hospital. He practised during fifteen years at 53 Margaret Street, London, W, and was Surgeon to the National Orthopaedic Hospital and Surgeon to the Bolingbroke Hospital. Meanwhile he was a constant attendant at medical societies and ranked as a rising surgeon. He became, however, a great sufferer from gout, and in search of a drier climate joined Herman Lawrence in practice at Fitzroy, Melbourne, where during two years his courteous manner, undoubted ability, and his musical and literary accomplishments won him many friends. While on a visit to Ballarat, he was found dead in bed on September 10th, 1894, death being attributed to an overdose of cocaine.