He was educated at St. Paul's Grammar School, Melbourne and sang with the choir at the English Church at Williamstown.
He was appointed organist at age 16 to the Baptist Church, Norwood, where H. J. Lambert was the pastor (he married Jones and Vandepeer in 1877), followed by He presided at the Adelaide Town Hall organ in 1884, to favorable reviews,[7] and in 1885 performed a series of recitals at the Town Hall.
In 1898 he started teaching at I. G. Reimann's College of Music, which became the Elder Conservatorium, and was with that organization until 1927, when he left for Perth.
[5] A popular organist, he was offered a variety of posts, including in 1899 St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney.
[10] He was committed to Point Heathcote Reception Centre early in 1929 after being diagnosed as temporarily insane; he killed himself at age 73 by strangulation shortly before he was due to be released.
Henry Howard in writing a cantata The Miracles of the Lord,[6] which was sung by a 600-voice Methodist choir.