Studied at the Royal College of Surgeons, at Trinity College, Dublin, and at the University of Glasgow. He practised at Lewes, Sussex, was Surgeon to the Infirmary, the Victoria Hospital, the Dispensary, the Royal Sussex Artillery Militia, and to the East Sussex Constabulary. In later years he was Visitor of Private Asylums in East Sussex. He had retired from active practice when he died in 1900 at St Anne's House, Lewes.