Born on 5 April 1883 he was educated at the Westminster Hospital, where he was house surgeon, surgical registrar, and resident medical officer. In February 1914 he settled in the Isle of Jersey, becoming surgeon to the Jersey Dispensary and Infirmary. During the war of 1914-18 he served in the RAMC, but contracted dysentery at Salonika in 1916 and was invalided out of military service. Between the wars he practised successfully at 100 Bath Street, St Ouen, Jersey. He acted, with the rank of Major, as medical officer to the Royal Militia of Jersey. On the German invasion of the Channel Isles in 1940 he was evacuated to England, and served in the Military Hospital at Netley, and the Battle Hospital at Reading. He resumed his practice in Jersey in 1945 and was appointed recruiting medical officer for the British Forces. He died suddenly while visiting a patient on 20 June 1958 aged 75, and was survived by his wife. They had lived latterly at La Rocque Onvoy, St Ouen.