Born at Withington, Lancashire. Graduated with honours at the University of Edinburgh both in the MB and MD examinations. He further distinguished himself by passing his MRCS and FRCS examinations in immediate sequence. Meanwhile he made some biochemical researches and published with W Cramer a paper “On Zymoids and the Effect of Heat on the Activity of Enzymes” (*Biochem. Jour.*, Liverpool, 1907, ii, 174). He was successively House Surgeon at the Queen’s Hospital, Resident Surgical Officer at the General Hospital, Birmingham, and House Surgeon at the Cardiff Infirmary. During the War he became Major RAMC (T), and after the War settled in practice in Withington, until his death in 1927.