Enrolled as a student in August 1796 under Everard Home. After 1799 he took up surgical posts at the Duke of York Hospital, Chelsea, St. Pancras’ Infirmary, and the National Vaccine Institution. He achieved fame as an anatomical tutor with a private school of anatomy in Dean Street, Soho. His bust by William Behnes was bequeathed to St. George’s Hospital by his daughter Emma Carpue who also left the hospital £6,500. He died in 1846 following an accident on the South-Western railway from which he never recovered.

Public vaccinator to St Marylebone. Teacher of vaccination at St George's in the 1890s by appointment of the Privy Council

Born in Sligo, Ireland. Educated at Clongowes Wood College and Trinity College, Dublin.

Moved to England and joined a practice in a Derbyshire coal district before moving to London. Assistant medical officer at the North Western Hospital, Hampstead.

Physician in charge of the infectious diseases unit at the Grove Hospital in 1962, when the hospital was taken over by St George's. Lecturer in infectious diseases at St Thomas's Hospital. Physician in charge of the infectious diseases at the South Western Hospital. Physician to the Victoria Hospital for Children, Tite Street. Smallpox consultat to the Ministry of Health in 1962. Lecturer in infectious diseases to St George's Medical School. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.

Published on infectious and children's diseases, including scarlet fever, diphtheria, pertussis, measles and children's diarrhoea.

Married Nora Ruth Walding Prag in 1941; they had two daughters and a son. Retired in 1965, but retained his smallpox consultancy and honorary consultancy to St George's; became a part-time school medical officer.

MD Edinburgh. Licentiate Royal College of Physicians. Fellow of the Royal Society. Physician at St George’s Hospital 1787-1828. Lecturer in chemistry, materia medica and the practice of medicine. Published on smallpox, vaccination, materia medica and food.