Born on September 18th, 1811, at Gibraltar, where his father, a military officer, was stationed. He used to say that for recurring fits when a younger man he had been bled from the arm twenty-five times in the course of a year, besides having some four dozen leeches applied, and had yet continued strong, vigorous, and active, had enjoyed sport, and through a long life had sustained the fatigues of general practice. He was apprenticed to Joseph Langstaff (qv), of St Martin's Lane, and had Erasmus Wilson (qv) as a fellow-apprentice. He afterwards studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital and the University of Edinburgh. He first practised in London as Surgeon to St Pancras Infirmary, and published *Deformities of the Spine and Chest, successfully treated by Exercise Alone and without Extension, Pressure or Division of Muscles* (8vo, 29 plates, London, 1842). He had a warm supporter and friend in Sir Anthony Carlisle. Later he practised at Clapham and was Surgeon to the South Lambeth, Stockwell and North Brixton Infirmary. He worked with much success and won the unbounded confidence of his patients for more than forty years. As one of the oldest members of the British Medical Association he served on the Council. He was also a Fellow and for some years a careful Treasurer of the Medical Society. In early life of fine physique and strong, in later life he was troubled with gout and bronchitis, which weakened him perceptibly until his death at Vine House, 55 Stockwell Road, London, SW, on September 27th, 1890. He was twice married and left three sons and two daughters, one son being a Surgeon Major IMS.