Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and practised for forty-five years at Uxbridge. He passed the FRCS examination on the second occasion on which it was held. He enjoyed the confidence and esteem of all classes by his cheerful, generous, kindly, and self-denying actions; retired from general practice and lived at Hillingdon, assisting his son in charge of the Moorcroft Private Asylum, which in due course was managed by his grandson. He died at Moorcroft House, Hillingdon, on October 29th, 1870.