Educated at the North Staffordshire Infirmary and then at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. Practised in Burslem from 1825-1859, and afterwards at 1 Nelson Place, Newcastle-under-Lyme. He was Surgeon Extraordinary to the North Staffordshire Infirmary from 1835-1892. He resided finally at Cliffe House, Lond

Born at Inverness; he studied at Aberdeen University; in London, at St George's and Middlesex Hospitals, and at the Windmill Street School. Entering the Navy he served on the West Coast of Africa, on ships engaged in suppressing the slave trade, then in the Mediterranean on board HM Frigate *Castor*