Belonged to an old county family in Herefordshire. He was the youngest of eleven children, and was educated at Hereford Cathedral School, after which he was apprenticed to John Griffiths, surgeon, of Hereford. He received his professional training at University College, London, the Middlesex Hospita

Born near Pontefract, where he was educated. He was practising about 1840 at Broughton, Manchester, also in Salford. Owing to failing health he retired about 1875. He won considerable distinction as a botanist, making a collection of rushes and mosses from the neighbourhood. He accompanied the bo