Born in Jersey, Channel Islands, student of Trustees Acedemy in Edinburgh; Royal Academy School in London; exhibited with Royal Acedemy, London; arrived in Melbourne 1852; moved to Sydney 1855; to Melbourne 1864; first president of Victoria Academy of Arts; drawing master at Melbourne School of Design from 1876; died 1887 and buried in the St. Kilda cemetery; married Eleanor, nee Scott when in England.