Educated at St George's Hospital. After qualifying he was Surgeon to the St Marylebone Dispensary and then Resident Medical Officer to the Lying-in Hospital, Edinburgh, and Surgeon to the Caledonian Asylum. Retiring from the last-named institution as Consulting Surgeon, he moved to London and practised at 63 Wimpole Street, his other address being at that time Lansdown Place, Cheltenham. We next find him at the Manor House, Stewkley, Leighton, Bucks, and after his retirement at Worthing, where he died on June 1st, 1889. He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Publication: In 1828 Chisholm's Edinburgh thesis bore the title : "De imperio, quo aeres, aquae, atque loca valetudinem humanam regunt." This was published the same year.