Graduated BA at Trinity College, Dublin; he studied at Dublin Hospital, was Physician's Assistant at St Vincent's Hospital, and Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy at the Peter's Street School of Medicine. He then removed to London and practised successively at Clive Terrace, Lambeth; at 60 Kennington

Served his apprenticeship to Dr Redwood, of Rhymney, and finished his professional training at Guy's Hospital. He settled in Aberdare in 1845, when the population of the town only numbered some 7000 persons, but had increased sevenfold at the time of his death. In 1863 he was appointed Medical Offi