Born in England and went out to Tasmania under engagement to the Imperial Government. Later he removed to Deniliquin, Co Townsend, New South Wales, to practise in partnership with Dr Noyes. In 1874 he went on to Wagga Wagga, where for a long period he was a Government Medical Officer in the Wagga Di

Studied at Guy's Hospital and practised first at 11 Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, London, WC, when he was Assistant Surgeon to the Parishes of St Giles-in-the-Fields and St George's, Bloomsbury, also to the Charlotte Street Dispensary. In 1855 he moved to 10 Russell Place, renamed 20 Fitzroy Str