Articled to John Moore at Bolton, and then studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital. From 1825-1831 he was House Surgeon at the Bolton Dispensary, on the termination of which post he received a gratuity and a warm vote of thanks from the Committee. He was then engaged in practice, which became extensive

Educated at Guy's Hospital, and for a time was Demonstrator of Anatomy. He practised first at Whitchurch, Hampshire, then at Evesham. In 1832 at the Worcester Meeting he seconded Sir Charles Hastings' proposal to found the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, subsequently the British Medical