He matriculated from Balliol College, Oxford, on 4 June 1824; graduated second class in classics 1828, when he took his B.A.
On 2 November 1840 he became a serjeant-at-law, and at the time of his decease was the oldest surviving serjeant.
He unsuccessfully contested the borough of Portsmouth in the Liberal interest at by-election on 14 March 1855.
[1] For many years he was a director of the London and South-Western Railway, was a magistrate for the county of Middlesex, sometimes presided as assistant-judge at the Middlesex sessions, and was treasurer of Serjeants' Inn, in succession to Serjeant James Manning, in 1866.
[2] His wife, whom he married at Marylebone on 21 July 1841, was Alicia Mary, eldest daughter of Sir John Tremayne Rodd, K.C.B.