Educated at Christ's Hospital (the Bluecoat School). He received his professional training at St George's Hospital, where he was House Surgeon in 1861. In 1862 he was appointed House Surgeon at the Salisbury Infirmary, and held office until he entered into private practice in that city in 1869. He acquired a very large practice, was Surgeon to the St Nicholas Hospital, and Hon Physician to the Infirmary from his election in 1874 to his death. He took a very keen interest in the Volunteer Movement, having joined the 1st Wilts Rifle Volunteers in 1869 as Assistant Surgeon and rising to the rank of Brigade Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel in 1891. He resigned in 1898 with the Long Service Medal and permission to wear his uniform and retain his rank. He was a zealous advocate of ambulance training and conducted classes for the police and for railway servants. The Salisbury and Wilton Ambulance Detachment presented him with an illuminated address as a token of grateful esteem in December, 1898, and the Volunteer officers and men also gave him a testimonial. He was a very regular attendant at the meetings of the Southern Branch of the British Medical Association, of which he was a member for twenty-five years. At the time of his death, in addition to his other posts, he was Ex-President of the Salisbury Medical Society and Hon Medical Officer to St Mary's Home. His partners latterly were Levi Stephenson Luckham, MRCS, and Herbert Lorraine Earle Wilks, MRCS. He died of pneumonia, following on a short attack of influenza, having in common with his Salisbury colleagues been hard pressed by work in the struggle against an influenza epidemic which had prevailed in the city for several weeks. His death occurred on the evening of April 12th, 1899, at his residence in the Close, and he was buried in the Cathedral Cloisters on April 17th, the funeral being attended by the whole of the profession in Salisbury, the officers and men of the Volunteer Corps, many nurses, and other friends.