[1] He was born at Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire and died at Vauxhall, London.
[2] As a cricketer, he was a lower-order batsman and apparently a bowler, though only limited statistics are available for the matches he played in, and his bowling and batting styles are unknown.
[3] He then played single first-class games in each of the four seasons from 1846 to 1849 for four different sides, though all of the matches were held in Cambridge.
He was vicar of Dorrington, Lincolnshire from 1862 to 1886, but the directory of Cambridge University alumni states that he then "fell upon evil times, being employed selling bootlaces in London streets c 1902".
[2] He died at one of the Rowton Houses for destitute people at Vauxhall in London in 1915, aged 91.