In January 1833 he graduated as a senior optime in mathematics, second in the first class of the classical tripos, and chancellor's medallist, and was immediately elected fellow of his college.
He wrote and spoke in favour of the ‘voluntary theological examinations.’ He spent some time upon a laborious edition of some of the plays of Plautus, with Latin notes and glossary.
For two years, 1843 and 1844, he was Cambridge preacher at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, when large congregations were present, and a printed selection from the discourses had a rapid sale.
At Athens he caught a fever, and narrowly escaped being bled to death by King Otho's German physician.
He was always a consistent advocate of the revision of the Book of Common Prayer, and printed two octavo volumes on the subject.