Studied at University College and Middlesex Hospitals, and was then House Surgeon at the General Lying-in Hospital, Lambeth. He went out to Mexico as Surgeon to the Bolanos Mining Company, and on returning to England settled at Ashbourne, Derbyshire, where he was Medical Officer of Health for the Southern District of the Ashbourne Union, Certifying Factory Surgeon, and Assistant Surgeon to the 8th Derbyshire Rifle Volunteers. He died at Monument House, Ashbourne, on February 21st, 1882.