Born in Mauritius on January 6th, 1851, and was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he gained the Senior Scholarship in Anatomy, Physiology, and Chemistry in 1872-1878; the Brackenbury Scholarship in Surgery in 1873-1874; and the Lawrence Scholarship and Gold Medal in the same session. He acted for a year as House Surgeon and then proceeded to Netley, where he won the Martin Memorial Gold Medal. His determination to enter the Indian Medical Service was perhaps fostered by a eulogistic communication by M C Furnell (qv) which appeared in the *St Bartholomew's Hospital Reports* (1870, vi, 138) soon after he entered the hospital. He entered the Bengal Army as Surgeon on March 30th, 1878; was promoted Surgeon Major on March 30th, 1890, and Lieutenant-Colonel on March 30th, 1898. He saw active service in the Afghanistan campaign of 1880 and was present at the action on Gara Heights and at the operations in the Hisarak District (Medal). He served in Burma (1885-1887), being in the operations of the 2nd and 5th Brigades (Medal and Clasp). He also took part in the Dongola Expedition (Sudan), for which he received a medal and the Khedive's medal, and on the North-West Frontier at Tochi in 1897-1898 (Medal with Clasp). He retired on December 31st, 1905, and died at Felstead in Essex on September 10th, 1908.