Little is known of this photographer other than he worked in Manchester as a portrait photographer and that he produced some interesting landscape pictures, one of which showed the effect of a dam-burst in 1864, near Sheffield. It would seem that he was also commissioned by Francis Frith to photograph scenes and buildings in his home city.
In 1866 he wrote a book entitled "The Collodio-Albumen process" and other papers.
The earliest of his pictures date to about 1852, and are to be found in the Kodak Museum, Manchester Central Library, and in the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry.