He then assisted Professor William Smith in his physiology classes at Owen's College[1] in Manchester, being allowed to study Medicine in his spare hours before winning a place at St Andrews University.
In 1858 he began work as Surgeon in Ordinary at St Marys Hospital for Women and Children in Manchester.
He bequeathed a library of over 3000 largely medical books and 53 rare incunabula to the Royal College of Physicians in London and endowed them to provide the Lloyd Roberts Lectures which ran annually from 1921 to 1953.
His literary collection of over 2000 books was bequeathed to the John Rylands Library.
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