Educated at St Mary's Hospital, London, where he was in succession house surgeon, surgical registrar 1889-97, surgical tutor, and assistant lecturer on practical surgery. He was a candidate for the post of assistant surgeon in 1897 when H S Collier was elected. Being defeated he severed his connexion with the hospital, abandoned medicine as a career, and lived at the Devonshire Club in St James's Street, where he showed himself as having a skilled knowledge of billiards and cards. During the first world war he received a commission as temporary captain, RAMC, dated 1 April 1915. He edited the third edition of Pye's *Surgical handicraft* in 1891. He does not appear to have married and he died at 18 Montagu Street, W1 on 7 January 1939.