Born at Manchester and studied at the Infirmary there. After the death of Joshua Brookes he joined Thomas King in opening the Blenheim Street School of Anatomy, and afterwards became Lecturer on Anatomy and Physiology at Westminster Hospital Medical School. He practised in Delahay Street, close to the Hospital, and was for many years Surgeon to the Western Dispensary which opened in Charles Street, and was later transferred to Rochester Row, Westminster. He next practised at 12 James Street, Buckingham Gate, contributed articles to cyclopaedias, and died at Kentish Town after a long illness on March 9th, 1850.