Received his professional training at St George's Hospital, where a certain R Cumming, according to the St George's Hospital Records, was twelve months pupil to Sir Benjamin Brodie from April 28th, 1834. He was a Volunteer Surgeon before he settled in practice at Malpas, Cheshire, where he remained

Educated at Guy's Hospital. He began to practise in Scarborough in 1840, shortly afterwards going into partnership with Thomas Weddell, who died in 1862. He practised for more than forty years in Scarborough, and was a prominent public man. At one period he was Physician to the Royal Scarborough Sea