Born 20 February 1891, he received his medical education at the Westminster Hospital, where he won an entrance scholarship and the Abrahams prize in clinical pathology, and was assistant house surgeon and surgical registrar. He then served as house surgeon at the Leicester Royal Infirmary, and received a commission as lieutenant, RAMC on 1 January 1917, being promoted temporary captain 19 March 1918; he resigned on 1 July 1919. He rejoined as captain on 19 August 1921, again resigning, this time with a gratuity, on 5 August 1925. He received with distinction the certificate of the London School of Tropical Medicine in 1926 and in the same year graduated MD in tropical medicine at the University of London, where he was already an MB and a Master in Surgery. From 1926 to 1929 he was a medical officer in the Malayan Medical Service, and on 6 December 1929 he entered the Indian Medical Service with the rank of captain, being promoted major on 20 July 1932. He was civil surgeon and chief medical officer at Delhi, but went on active service in Burma at the beginning of the second world war, where he died on 10 November 1939.