A strong English player who came in third in Birmingham in 1858 and in London (BCA) in 1862. Vicar.
In a matches, he beat Amos Burn in 1888 (+5-3=0), drew with Baron Kolisch in 1860 (+4-4=0), he lost to Paul Morphy in 1858 being given odds of pawn and the move (-5=2), to Samuel Boden (+2-7=2) in 1858, to John Wisker (-3=2) in 1872, to Amos Burn (+6-11=3) in 1875 and to Herman Zukertort in 1878 (-8=3).