He was elected to the Royal Society in 1684, for his work in natural philosophy and medicine.

During 1685 he acted as secretary to the society and edited the Philosophical Transactions nos.

He was a member of the Philosophical Society of Oxford,[2][3] where he practised medicine and was awarded an M.D.

His publication De arthritide symptomatica (2nd edn, 1715) included the first scientific description of ‘Devonshire colic’ (later referred to by John Huxham and George Baker).

[5] His other writings included Antiquitates Britanno-Belgicae a study of Roman Hampshire, Wiltshire and Somerset – areas previously inhabited by the Belgae.