Born at Preston, and received his medical education at the Borough School and Guy's Hospital. He settled in general practice in Manchester in 1834, and in 1847, when an alarming and disastrous epidemic of typhus raged there, was the general superintendent of the extensive arrangements made for check

Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital and practised at Yarnton Lodge, Great Malvern, where he was Surgeon to the Dispensary and Accoucheur to the Great Malvern Lying-in Charity, Physician and Surgeon to the Malvern Rural Hospital. He died on June 15th, 1884.