Born on October 31st, 1780, entered the Army on November 9th, 1799, as Surgeon's Mate unattached, was gazetted Assistant Surgeon to the 88th Foot on September 10th, 1803, was promoted to be Surgeon on May 30th, 1805, to Staff Surgeon on May 23rd, 1811, to Deputy Inspector of Hospitals on September 25th, 1817; later Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals. He retired on half pay on September 26th, 1817. He had a distinguished war service in Holland in 1799, in Egypt in 1801, and in the Peninsula from 1808-1813. In 1816 he was appointed Superintendent of the Plague at Corfu under General Sir Thomas Maitland, High Commissioner of the Ionian Isles, and dedicated his *A Treatise on Plague*, 1846, to Sir James McGrigor, Bart, under whom he had served in Egypt; he presented a copy to the College Library. He believed plague to be contagious, introduced into Corfu and Cephalonia by smugglers; and maintained that the quarantine regulations should be rigidly enforced. In retirement he lived latterly in Hertford Street, Mayfair, and became one of the few survivors of the Egyptian and Peninsular Wars. He died suddenly at Teddington on December 18th, 1858. Publication: *A Treatise on the Plague*, 8vo, London, 1846.