Apprenticed early in 1832 to Mr Watson, in Berners Street, who was for many years Secretary to the Court of Examiners at Apothecaries' Hall. Entering as a student at University College, London, he obtained Dr Linley's Silver Medal for Botany in 1833 or 1834, and Dr Edward Turner's Gold Medal for Chemistry in 1835. Appointed House Surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital in 1836, he held the post for one year before qualifying. In 1838 he settled in practice in Ebury Street, where he remained till 1850, when he removed to 13 William Street, Lowndes Square, where he died suddenly on March 15th, 1880, survived by a widow and large family. He enjoyed a very large, lucrative, and fashionable practice, numbering among his patients more than one Cabinet Minister. Publications: "Fatty Degeneration of Voluntary Muscles." - *Trans Pathol Soc*, 1856-7, viii, 1. "Spontaneous Laceration of the Femoral Artery." - *Ibid*, 1857-8, ix, 159. "Dissecting Aneurism of the Arch of the Aorta." - *Ibid*, 1865-6, xvii, 52. "Intestinal Concretion." - *Trans Clin Soc*, 1876, ix, 163. "Yellow Fever in London." - *Ibid*, 1877-8, xi, 187.