He matriculated at St Mary Hall, Oxford in 1600, and graduated M.A.
[1] He gave public lectures as professor of geometry at Gresham College, London from 1620 to 1630.
He was an ally of William Laud in his time as Chancellor of the University of Oxford, working with Brian Twyne on a revision of the statutes.
[1] He held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1631 to 1649.
He was ejected from his chair after the 1648 Parliamentary visitation of Oxford, and lived in poverty with his sister in Southwark.