Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he gained the Senior Prize for Clinical Surgery in 1886, and afterwards in Paris. He practised first at Bodmin, then at Bovey Tracy, Devonshire, where he was Certifying Factory Surgeon, Surgeon to the Oddfellows, and Local Medical Referee to the Home for Incurables. In the early seventies he removed to Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, where he was Surgeon to the Dispensary. Finally he returned to Devonshire, and practised at Bampton Street, Tiverton, where he died on December 6th, 1884.