Born Layfields, Rufford, Nottinghamshire 3 May 1877           Died Wellington 6 Oct 1946

Educated at Rufford School and Wycliffe College

Entered St Johns College, Cambridge in 1896

Medical training at St Barts Hospital, London

First registered as a medical practitioner in NZ 29 Jul 1908

Initially practised in Christchurch, before moving to Wellington

Medical Superintendent, Wellington Hospital 1910 - 1914

With Dr William Herbert, co-founder of Bowen Hospital on the corner of Bowen St and The Terrace.

Private Surgical practice 1914 - 1917, and again post-war.

Surgical Specialist with the NZMC on hospital ship Maheno 1917 -1918

Obituary: NZMJ 1946 45:570

photograph courtesy Home of Compassion archives, Wellington