Educated at the Middlesex Hospital, where he was a prizeman in chemistry, house surgeon, house physician, and demonstrator of anatomy. For a short time he was surgeon to the Western General Dispensary, and then assistant surgeon to the North-west London Hospital and to the City Orthopaedic Hospital. He soon relinquished the practice of his profession and lived at Fernhill, Wootton Bridge, Isle of Wight. The outbreak of war found him a major in the 8th Battalion of the Hampshire Regiment with a commission dated 20 August 1915, he won the Military Cross in 1917, and on 1 October 1918 he was gazetted lieutenant-colonel in the Royal Engineers in command of 221 AT Company. He was a member of the Astronomical Societies of London and Paris, and died at Wootton Bridge on 9 September 1933. His widow, Antoinette Jane Brodie, JP, died at Bridge House, Wootton Bridge on 29 December 1948, aged 84 (*The Times*, 1 January 1949). Publication:- *Dissections illustrated*. London, 1895.