Born on January 19th, 1791, and received his professional training at the University of Edinburgh. He became Hospital Assistant to the Forces on May 12th, 1815, and was gazetted Staff Assistant Surgeon on November 9th. On September 18th, 1835, he was promoted to Surgeon of the 36th Regiment of Foot, and retired on half pay on June 11th, 1841. The fact of his being a half-pay Surgeon is noted in the Fellows' *Register*, where his regiment is wrongly given as the 26th. He saw active service in the Waterloo Campaign and in the Kandyan Rebellion, 1817, in Ceylon. He died on February 13th, 1870.