 He succeeded to his uncle's practice, and in 1826 brought out a new edition of his work on the urethra, which is described as the eighth edition.He became surgeon to the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital.He published "Ophthalmic Memoranda", 1838, and wrote papers in "The Lancet" and the "London Medical and Surgical Journal", enumerated in Amédée Dechambre, "Dictionnaire encyclopédique des sciences médicales".