Born on 20 May 1878 at Dunedin, he was educated at the University of New Zealand, University College, London, and St Bartholomew's Hospital. He held resident posts at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, the London Throat Hospital, and the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital. He was assistant medical officer at Shoreditch Infirmary and at the Horton and Colney Hatch Asylums. He then went back to New Zealand and practised as an aurist and ophthalmologist at Auckland, where he was on the staff of the General Hospital. During the war of 1914-18 he served as ophthalmic surgeon at the 2nd New Zealand General Hospital at Walton-on-Thames, with the rank of Major, NZ Medical Corps. He was created OBE for his services. He was elected a foundation Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1927, and died at Auckland in June 1955, survived by his wife, son and daughter. Publication: Surgical treatment of facial paralysis. *Brit med J* 1919, 2, 700.