Entered St Bartholomew’s Hospital as one of John Abernethy’s pupils. Among his contemporaries were F C Skey, Francis Kiernan, Thomas Wormald, and G L Roupell, the last named being one of his most intimate friends. After qualifying he joined the Hon East India Company’s Service and subsequently set up in practice at Notting Hill. Next he carried on a private lunatic asylum at Kensington House, and after retirement lived in Kensington until his death on Feb 25th, 1875. He was survived by four children; his youngest son, at the time of his death, was a medical student at St Bartholomew’s Hospital.