Born about 1880 he was educated at Otago Medical School, New Zealand, and was house surgeon and resident medical officer at Dunedin Hospital. He came to London in 1905, took postgraduate courses at St Thomas's Hospital, and held resident posts at the Evelina Children's Hospital, the Female Lock Hospital, and the Cancer Hospital. In 1910 he went back to New Zealand, practising at Queenstown on Lake Wakatipu, 100 miles north-west of Dunedin, then at 86 Queen Street, Dunedin and later at 60 Stafford Street. He died at Liverpool while visiting England in 1932.