Educated at the London Hospital. He first practised as a surgeon at Chatham, where he was Surgeon to the Rochester and Chatham Dispensary, and Union Medical Officer. Before 1857 he had removed to London, where he practised first at 15 Carlton Hill East, St John's Wood, and then at 14 Westbourne Terr

Received his professional training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and practised at Prescot, and then (1847) at Mill Lane, West Derby, Liverpool. He was Surgeon to the Liverpool Cholera Hospital, and later (1858) was Surgeon to the Liverpool Workhouse, Infirmary, and Fever Hospital, his address being