Educated at the Middlesex Hospital. At the time of his death he was Medical Officer of the Staveley District, Chesterfield Union, and Hon Surgeon of the 1st Derbyshire Mounted Volunteer Rifles. He died at Staveley, where he had practised, on October 25th, 1864.

Born on April 13th at Litcham, Norfolk, where his grandfather (who died in 1807, aged 67), his father (who died in 1849), and his elder brother (died in February, 1854) practised in succession. He studied at St George's Hospital, and practised in London until the death of his elder brother, Peter Ra