Studied at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, and at Edinburgh University. After acting as House Surgeon at the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, was Surgeon to the Royal Metropolitan Infirmary for Children (Royal Waterloo Hospital for Children). He practised as a Surgeon at 13 New Bridge Street,

Born at Stockport, and was apprenticed to Messrs Killer and Flint, of that place, and then proceeded to the Richmond School of Medicine, Dublin. He returned to practise for half a century in his native town. He was Surgeon to the Stockport Infirmary from 1836-1858, and was elected Consulting Surgeon