Educated at Trinity College, where he held a scholarship, and at hospitals in Dublin. He had in 1832 gained the Vice-Chancellor's prize for a Greek Essay on Cholera. He practised at Cheltenham, was a frequent contributor to the *Lancet*, and died on November 17th, 1887. Among his numerous observations the one which appears to have a permanent interest is his description of the method of ligating the third part of the left subclavian, and the first part of the left common carotid. In making the incision for the subclavian, he drew down the skin over the clavicle and cut down along the bone. In this way the external jugular vein as it passes under the clavicle escaped division. In ligaturing the first part of the left internal carotid, after retracting the sternomastoid outwards and the sternothyroid inwards towards the trachea, he avoided wounding the internal jugular vein by pushing it outwards, and the pneumogastric nerve, the termination of the thoracic duct, and the oesophagus, by hooking forwards the artery whilst pushing back these structures towards the longus colli (*Lancet*, 1837-8, I, 581). The operation was successfully performed, first by Charles Stonham, and then by William S Halsted, both Fellows of the College (qv).