He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn on 18 June 1828, and became a special pleader in the common law courts, and also went the home circuit. He was admitted a member of Serjeant's Inn on 12 November 1842, and made a judge of county courts, circuit No. 15, Yorkshire, by Lord Chancellor Cottenham on 9 November 1849. On 20 August 1853 he was gazetted one of the commissioners for inquiring into the state and practice of the county courts.
