[1] He matriculated at Merton College, Oxford on 10 February 1682,[2] and also entered Lincoln's Inn on 31 May 1682.
[3] He married Mary Williams of St. James in the Fields by licence dated 18 June 1687, and was called to the bar in 1688.
He was returned unopposed in the 1708 British general election and voted for the naturalization of the Palatines in 1709 and for the impeachment of Dr Sacheverell in 1710.
He was relatively inactive in Parliament after the 1710 British general election but voted against the French commerce bill on 18 June 1713.
He was returned again for Downton at the 1713 British general election and voted against the expulsion of Richard Steele on 18 March 1714.