Educated at the Leeds Medical School, he took first-class honours in medicine and was awarded the McGill scholarship in surgery 1902. After holding resident posts at the General Infirmary, Leeds, he was appointed assistant surgeon and subsequently surgeon. He also lectured in clinical surgery at the University of Leeds, and was surgeon to the Coronation Hospital, Ilkley. During the war of 1914-18 he served in the RAMC, and was promoted to the rank of Major. He lived at Collingham Bridge, Leeds, but after his retirement moved to Fishers Pond, Eastleigh, near Winchester, where he died on 1 May 1957. His wife had died on 27 September 1944 at Harrogate, while they were living at Hill Crest, Burton Leonard.