Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary in the early 19th century. Some years in the Navy; then in the Russian service as physician in the government of Kilyvan, Siberia. Author of ‘Hints on the Establishment of a Universal Written Character’, 1797; ‘Observations of the Duration and Course of Fever in Britain &’, 1802 and ‘An Attempt to Estimate the Power of Medicine in Controlling Fever’, 1818 . Treasurer to the College