Educated at University College and at the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin. House Surgeon at University College Hospital, at the Male Lock Hospital, and at the South Staffordshire General Hospital, Wolverhampton. He went to Bradford, where, for a time, he was Dispensing Surgeon at the Bradford Infirmary. Later he became Assistant Surgeon to the Eye and Ear Hospital, and after that was appointed to the Staff of the Bradford Royal Infirmary. At the time of his death, on Nov 4th, 1905, he was Consulting Surgeon to the Bradford Royal Infirmary and Honorary Surgeon to the Bradford Girls' Home. He practised at Clifton Villas, Manningham, Bradford. [1] [Amendments from the annotated edition of *Plarr's Lives* at the Royal College of Surgeons: [1] where his son William (d.1961) FRCS 1907 succeeded him.]