Born about 1912 he was educated at Otago Medical School and graduated in 1934. He was a resident at Christchurch Hospital for two years, and then went to England for postgraduate work. He held appointments at the Weir Hospital, Brentwood, the London Chest Hospital, East Grinstead, and St Peter's Hospital for Stone, and became particularly interested in genito-urinary surgery. He took the Fellowship in 1940, and served for a time in the merchant navy, but returned to New Zealand as surgeon to the Greymouth Hospital before the end of the war. He later became surgeon-superintendent of the Hokitika Hospital and district consulting surgeon. He left Hokitika in 1947 and settled in consulting practice at 34 Princes Street, Auckland. He was taken ill in 1953 and died on 8 April 1954 aged 42. He was survived by his wife, son, and daughter.