Studied in Birmingham, London, and Paris. He practised at St Peter's Green, Bedford, was Coroner for the Borough, Surgeon to the Bedford Dispensary, Medical Assistant to the Royal Humane Society, Medical Officer of the Bedford, Biggleswade, and Woburn Unions, and at one time President of the South Midland Branch of the British Medical Association. He published articles on medicine, surgery, and sanitation, and in 1856 gave a lecture on "The Object and Advantages of Literary and Scientific Association". He died at Goldington Road, Bedford, on October 9th, 1907.