Born in 1866, he was educated at Aberdeen University, the Middlesex and King's College Hospitals. He was a house surgeon at the Gloucestershire General Infirmary and Eye Hospital and then ophthalmic clinical assistant at the Middlesex Hospital. He settled in practice at Lewes, Sussex and was appointed surgeon to the Victoria Hospital. Later he practised at Blackwater, Hants. He retired to Camberley, Surrey, where he died on New Year's Day 1961 aged 94. He very generously bequeathed half the residue of his fortune, on the expiry of certain life interests, to the College.