Educated at St Mary's Hospital, where he served as surgical registrar, he was a surgical clinical assistant at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. During the South African war he served in the Imperial Yeomanry base hospital at Deelfontein in 1900. He was subsequently consulting surgeon to the throat and ear department of the Miller General Hospital, Greenwich, and consulting surgeon to the Metropolitan Hospital. In later years he practised at 88 St Mary's Mansions, Park Place Villas, London W2. He is presumed to have died in 1953.