Educated at Westminster Hospital, where he was a distinguished student and prizeman. He went out to Australia, began the practice of his profession in Sydney in 1842, and continued actively to exercise it for thirty years. He was at the head of the profession in Sydney, and is said to have been courteous, kind, a stickler for professional honour, well versed in all branches of his art, and one whose opinion on questions of surgery carried great weight in the Colony. He was, moreover, a wit and a good musician. He held many high positions, occupying for over twenty years the post of Surgeon to the Sydney Infirmary, of which, on his retirement some eight years before his death, he was unanimously elected Consulting Surgeon. During the last three years of his life he was also Consulting Surgeon to the Infirmary and St Vincent's Hospital. He was Surgeon to the Sydney Female Refuge; a Member of the Medical Board of New South Wales; Member of the Senate of Sydney University; a Fellow of St Paul's College; an Examiner in Medicine at Sydney University; and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Australian Mutual Provident Society. Not long before his death he was busy with others in drafting a new Medical Bill. He was also desirous of forming a scientific Medical Society in Sydney, intending, shortly before his death, if his health continued good, to call a meeting of the profession for this purpose. He died at Sydney on September 20th, 1872, leaving a widow and a numerous family, on whose behalf a large subscription was afterwards raised. His portrait accompanies his biography in the *New South Wales Medical Gazette* (1872-3, iii, 43). His Sydney address was at 187 Macquarie Street. **This is an amended version of the original obituary which was printed in volume 1 of Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows. Please contact the library if you would like more information lives@rcseng.ac.uk**