[1] He was educated at The Market Bosworth School and later joined the British Indian Army, at Woolwich.

[1] He joined the Kattiwar Field Force and worked as commissariat officer at Bombay.

[2] In 1897, Phelps described public vaccinators as "grasping vampires" who operate on people for "blood money".

Phelps argued against vaccines, stating that sanitation was the only remedy for smallpox and other diseases.

[5] Phelps was the editor and owner of the Citizen newspaper which published anti-vaccination material.