After learning his rudiments at Lewes Grammar School he was articled to an attorney, and eventually secured a good practice.
To Watson he passed information for his Memoirs of the Ancient Earls of Warren and Surrey.
[3] He died suddenly in Southampton Row, Bloomsbury, 28 February 1782, aged 57.
[4] He had asked "to be buried in the vault in St. Michael's churchyard in Lewes with my father and mother".
He had an antiquarian library at his chambers in the Inner Temple, which he directed to be sold after his death.