Studied at University College and Manchester Hospitals. He practised first at Church Street, Lancaster; by 1854 he had removed to Grosvenor Square, Oxford Road, Manchester, later to 92 Bloomsbury, Manchester. He was Secretary and Vice-President of the Manchester Medical Ethical Association, member of the Medical Section of the Manchester Royal Institution, and a Fellow of the London Obstetrical Society. Subsequently he moved to Newton Villas, Withington; was Surgeon to the 19th Lancashire Artillery Volunteers, a member of the British Medical Association and of the Manchester Medical Society, and a Medical Referee to the Star Assurance Society. He died at Ostroff House, Withington, about 1885.