Studied at Westminster Hospital, where he was Guthrie Scholar in 1891, President's Prizeman and Prosector at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1893, and later House Surgeon. He served next as Medical Officer on the steamships Fifeshire, Mound, and Buteshire, then practised for a time at Winton, New Zealand, when he was Public Vaccinator. About 1900 he returned to practice at Pen-y-bryn, Hereford, subsequently at 3 Culverden Gardens, St John's Road, and finally at Howard Lodge, Mount Zion, Tunbridge Wells. He died in or before 1919.