One of a well-known family of Scottish ship-owners; entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1891. He took a Second Class in the Natural Science Tripos, and in 1895 entered as a student at St Thomas’s Hospital, where he filled the posts of House Physician and Obstetric House Physician. In 1899 he started in general practice at 22 Upper Richmond Road, Putney, whence he soon moved to a double address in Kensington and Wimpole Street (26 Upper Wimpole Street, and 1 Stafford Terrace, Campden Hill). He determined to take up obstetric medicine as his special work, and in 1901 was appointed Physician to Out-patients at the Samaritan Free Hospital. He was also Hon Secretary to the Medical Committee of this hospital at the time of his death. In 1902 he was appointed Registrar and Obstetric Tutor at St Thomas’s Hospital, in 1905 Assistant Obstetric Physician to the Great Northern Hospital, and in 1906 Assistant Physician to the British Lying-in Hospital. He lectured at St Thomas’s on October 26th, 1906, and died of pneumonia on Monday, October 29th. He was survived by his widow, a daughter of Sir William Long, whom he had married in 1903, and by an infant child. He had latterly resided and practised at 27 Seymour Street, Portman Square, W1. Publications: “Case of Puerperal Eclampsia with Autopsy.” – *Obst. Soc. Trans.*, 1903, xliv, 253. “Paratubal Haematocele.” – *Ibid.*, 1903, xliv, 322. “Chorio-epithelioma following Hydatidiform Mole.” – *Ibid*., 1904, xlv, 499. “A Cyst probably arising from an Accessory Fallopian Tube.” – *Jour. Obst. and Gynoecol*., 1904, v, 155. “Torsion of the Pedicle in Hydrosalpinx.” – *Ibid.*, 514. “On the Appearance of Thyroid-like Structures in Ovarian Cysts.” – *Ibid.*, 1905, viii, 92. “The Colour of the Hair in Ovarian Dermoids.” – *Brit. Med. Jour*., 1900, ii, 599.