He was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge, and ordained shortly after graduating.
[1] By 1810 he was junior vicar and precentor of Bangor Cathedral, and as such was responsible for the fabric of the building.
In 1848 he was a founder member of the Bangor Diocesan Board of Education, formed after the notorious "Blue Books".
The younger of their two daughters married Evan Lewis, later Dean of Bangor.
In 1864, construction work started on St James Church in Bangor.