Born at Sydenham on November 1st, 1812; studied at the London Hospital, started practice in Shadwell in 1843, and was for forty years one of the best-known medical practitioners in East London, as Surgeon to the Police, Registrar of Births and Deaths for Shadwell and Wapping, Public Vaccinator, and Surgeon to five clubs. In 1870 he had been out thirteen nights in succession and had attended thirty-five patients each day, independently of patients coming to his house, when he abraded a finger in attending a lying-in patient and contracted syphilis. This was followed in April, 1871, by paralysis, ptosis, and affection of speech. He died on June 16th, 1877, at 127 Petherton Road, Highbury, London, N.