Son of Edward Daniels, assessor of water rates to the borough, now city, of Leicester, and Elizabeth Ann Woodcock, his wife, he was born at Leicester on 19 April 1872. His younger brother Davis Woodcock Daniels is noticed above. He was educated at Wyggeston School, Leicester, and at the London Hospital. He held the offices of house surgeon, resident anaesthetist, and clinical assistant in the orthopaedic department, after which he settled in practice at Newport, Monmouthshire. Here he was medical officer to out-patients and was in charge of the electrical department at Gwent Hospital. During the first world war he acted as surgical specialist at No 18 General Hospital, Staples in 1915-16, and was afterwards attached to the Indian Casualty Clearing Station at Lud, Palestine, and served at various places in Egypt. After the end of the war he practised at 14 Cross Street, Leicester, where he died of septic pneumonia on 20 July 1930 and was buried in the Welford Road cemetery, Leicester. He never married.