Born at Brisbane, Australia, 22 February 1880, he was educated at Brisbane Grammar School and entered the Queensland public service. At the age of 22 he entered the University of Sydney, and graduated in medicine in 1907. He was a resident at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, started general practice at Petersham, New South Wales, and was later appointed to the staff of the Lewisham Hospital. He served with the Australian Imperial Force in France and England during the first world war. After returning to his practice for about a year, during which he married, he came to Europe again for postgraduate study. He worked at Moorfields and in the Eye Hospital at Vienna, and took the Fellowship in 1921 and the ophthalmic diploma of the Royal Colleges in 1923. Returning to Australia he set up as a consultant at 143 Macquarie Street, Sydney, and was appointed to the staff of the Royal South Sydney, the St George District, and the Lidcombe Hospitals as Ophthalmic Surgeon. He died on 16 August 1955 aged 75. His first wife died in 1945, and he married again in 1946. He was a keen musician, a great reader, and a collector of Australian paintings, one of which he bequeathed to the National Art Gallery.