Studied at University College Hospital, where he was House Surgeon. He practised in South London: at 5 Union Terrace, Peckham; 20 Warwick Place, Peckham Rye, where about 1855 he was in partnership with Thomas Morris, MD; at Queen's Road, Peckham; at Talfourd House, Camberwell, where in 1875 he had as partner Philip George Philips - he was there District Medical Officer to the Camberwell Post Office; and finally at Staines. He lived in retirement at 55 Kensington Mansions, Earl's Court, and 63 Philbeach Gardens, London, SW, where he died on August 15th, 1903. His portrait is in the Fellows' Album.