 degree in the University of Dublin, but did not obtain a hospital appointment till 1851, when he became surgeon to the House of Industry Hospitals.In 1856, he was elected President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and in 1877 collected some papers which he had previously published in medical journals into a volume entitled "Clinical Records of Injuries and Diseases of the Genito-Urinary Organs".His only other work is "Remarks on the Application of Chloroform to Surgical purposes", Dublin, 1851, and both are without permanent value.