He was appointed joint lecturer on medical jurisprudence at St. Bartholomew's in 1932.
In 1834 he was made assistant physician and in 1836 joint lecturer on medicine.
In 1841 he was promoted to be full physician, an office which he held for twenty-two years, and became sole lecturer on medicine.
On 19 March 1874 he was created a baronet, of Cavendish Square, in the County of Middlesex, and of Springfield, in the Isle of Wight.
He died in 1887 at Cavendish Square, London, and was buried at Highgate Cemetery.