Born at Pointon, Staffordshire, in March, 1803; studied at the Windmill Street School of Medicine and at Middlesex Hospital. Having qualified, he was the first House Surgeon of the General Dispensary, Lincoln, for two years. He afterwards practised successfully in Lincoln and the neighbourhood for n

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