Educated at King's College Hospital, where he served as house surgeon, house accoucheur, and ophthalmic clinical assistant. He was also house surgeon and clinical assistant at the Royal Eye Hospital, Southwark. He practised at Weybridge 1900-07, and at Bicester 1907-13. He then retired to Lustleigh, South Devon, but lived at Weybridge from 1927, at Pulborough during the years 1930-31 and in London from 1931 to 1936. He died suddenly at Arosa, in Switzerland, on 26 December 1936 aged 62. Of German origin, a Roman Catholic, and possessed of considerable private means, he never competed seriously for practice.