Practised at Scarborough for many years in partnership with Richard Cross, MRCS, and Henry Wright, MRCS. He acted as Surgeon to the Northern Sea-Bathing Infirmary, to the Ordnance, Scarborough, to a detachment of the 6th Foot, and to the Royal Artillery. He was active in local affairs as an Alderman

Born at Cannock, Staffordshire, in September, 1795; was apprenticed to Dr Somerville of Stafford, then studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was dresser under Abernethy, and afterwards studied anatomy in Paris. He joined Somerville in partnership at Stafford, and in 1823 was appointed Surge