Studied at St George's Hospital, including the Grosvenor Place School, practised first in Lower Brook Street, Ipswich, and was Medical Referee to the United Services and General Life Assurance Society. About 1870 he removed to Milnthorpe, Westmorland, and was Medical Officer to the Milnthorpe District Workhouse and Infirmary of the Kendal Union. He was also Certifying Factory Surgeon, Surgeon to the Westmorland Orphan Asylum and to the New Bridge Line of the Furness Railway. Finally he moved to Grouville, Jersey, and died in retirement in 1900. As a St Andrews graduate he was a member of the Graduates' Association; he was also a member of the British Medical Association.