Educated at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, and the Webb Street and Alders-gate Street Schools of Medicine. He practised at Gloucester, where he was at one time House Surgeon to the Infirmary. At the time of his death he was Consulting Surgeon to this institution and to the Dispensary. At one time

Born at Clare, Suffolk, in May, 1817; went to the Mercers' School, and at 15 was apprenticed to Gilbert, a Norwich surgeon, and attended the practice of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, where he attracted the attention of the Ophthalmic Surgeon, John Dalrymple (qv). In 1835 he entered Guy's Hospita