He worked as the first principal of the Rajah's High School (now Maharaja's College) in Cochin in India where he died.
C. Pritchard at Clapham before joining as a pensioner at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1850.
He made collections of insects and birds eggs which were presented to the Cambridge University museum.
[1] He moved to India to become the founding principal at the Rajah's High School, Ernakulam while also being a deacon at Madras from 1893.
[2] He served as a Chaplain at St Francis Church, Cochin and later became a Director of Public Instruction for South India during which time he passed rules to stop corporal punishment of students by teachers, only allowing headmasters from ordering it under special circumstances.