Educated at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals. During the Crimean War he was Staff Surgeon to the British Military Hospitals at Scutari, and became a member of the Imperial Medical Society of Constantinople. He was afterwards Surgeon to the Battersea Dispensary and to the Royal Humane Society. At the time of his death he was Physician and Surgeon to the Royal Portland Dispensary, Registrar of Births and Deaths, Isle of Portland, Medical Referee to several Insurance Societies, and Medical Officer to several Benefit Societies. He died at Portland, Dorset, on January 27th, 1865.