Educated at St Thomas's Hospital, where he became House Surgeon. Settled in practice at 14 Portland Place, Lower Clapton, London, where he held a number of public appointments - Public Vaccinator, Police Surgeon, Medical Referee to the Edinburgh Assurance Company, and Medical Officer of the City of London Union House. Later he resided at Cedar House, 136 Stamford Hill, London, where he was in partnership with John Bradshaw White, MD. He was a member of the British Medical Association, of the Hunterian Society, and a Fellow of the Obstetrical Society. He was drowned at Mullion Cove, Cornwall, on Sept 5th, 1902, in a brave attempt to rescue a lady from the like fate.