Was for many years Physician to the Bank of Ireland and to the Dublin Metropolitan Police. In his practice he devoted considerable attention to phthisis, and was the author of several much-read works on this subject. He founded, or helped to found, several hospitals such as the Dublin Fever Hospital, also a hospital after the pattern of the French *maisons de santé*, and in which were public baths. He was knighted by the Lord-Lieutenant on March 7th, 1811. Publications: *Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on the Diseases of Seamen*, 12mo, Dublin, 1814. *Essay on Warm, Cold and Vapour Bathing*: with practical observations on sea bathing, diseases of the skin, bilious and liver complaints, and dropsy, 8vo, London, 4th ed., 1819. *Essay on Diseases of the Skin*: containing practical observations on sulphurous fumigations in the cure of cutaneous complaints, with cases, 8vo, London, 1821 and 1828. *Young Mother's Assistant*, 8vo, London, 2nd ed., 1822. *Practical Manual for the Preservation of Health and the Prevention of Diseases incidental to the Middle and Advanced Stages of Life*: particularly rheumatism, gout, gravel, apoplexy, asthma, pulmonary consumption, etc., 12mo, London, 1824. *Lecture on Sea-bathing*: with observations on watering places, on indigestion, and on the diet and regimen of invalids, 8vo, London, 1828 and 1831. *Lecture on Tubercular Consumption and Asthma*, 2nd ed., 1831. *Essays on the Exhibition of Iodine in Tubercular Consumption; also on Indigestion, Diet, and Sea-bathing, with an Appendix on the Water Cure*, 12mo, Dublin, 10th ed., 1845.