Was born at Shepton Mallet, in Somersetshire, in August, 1800, and received his elementary education under Mr Rogers, of Dursley, and Mr Mules, of Ilminster. He was apprenticed for five years to Richard Smith, Surgeon to the Bristol Royal Infirmary from 1796-1843, for a fee of two hundred guineas. H

Studied at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals and practised at Huntingdon, at first in partnership for many years with Wotton Isaacson, MRCS, and then with Edmund Carver, BA, MB Cantab. He was first styled Surgeon to the Infirmary and Dispensary, and was later styled Medical Officer to the County Hospi

Practised at St. Andrew's, Norwich. He was elected Assistant Surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital in 1828, when there were three candidates and 429 Governors attended to vote. Two years later he became Surgeon on the death of Henry Carter, and resigned in 1857, when he was elected Consulting