Apprenticed to Messrs Lodge and Walton, of Preston, and began to practise at Clitheroe. In 1873 he moved to Lytham, where, attending only personal friends, he acted as JP for the County of Lancaster and was one of the Local Improvement Commissioners at Lytham until the change in the constitution of

Studied at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, and practised, first at Lincoln, where he was Surgeon to the General Dispensary and City Prison, then he moved to 11 Cornwall Crescent, and 138 Camden Road, London, N. He was a member of the Court of Examiners, and at the time of his death Master of the Ap