Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whanau a Wells ki Norwich, i reira ia i whakangunguhia ai hei kaihoahoa. I mahi ia i te mata o St Mary Moorfields i Rānana, i muri mai ka noho ia hei kaihoahoa, e whakaatu ana i ana mahi i te Royal Academy i te 1823 me te 1828. I te whakamahi i te tipu tere me te piki haere o te taupori, ka tae mai ia ki Montreal i te tau 1830. Ko tana tono tuatahi ko te whakaara i te whare herehere hou, a muri iho ka hangaia e ia te Ste. Market o Ann (1832), e tu tae noa ki te
Te tahunga o ngā Whare Pāremata i Montreal. I te tau 1834, i tonoa ia e John Redpath me Peter McGill ki te hoahoa me te hanga i tetahi kaainga hou mo te Hahi Presbyterian o St. Paul. I whakaotihia e ia etahi whare karakia mo nga haahi katoa, tae atu ki te Hahi Chalmers-Wesley United, ana ko tana rongonui whaiaro i whakawhiwhia ki a ia nga komihana motuhake mo etahi o nga rangatira o Montreal i roto i te Golden Square Mile - penei i te Notman House (1845) me te Prince of Wales Terrace, i oti i te 1860 mo Sir George Simpson. Ko tana koiora i roto i te Canadian Encyclopedia, e kii ana "na te ngaro o te nuinga o ana mahi, kua warewarehia ia hei kaiwhakawa mo te reka o te hoahoanga i te timatanga o Victorian Montreal". I mate ia i Montreal i te Paenga-whāwhā 26, 1864, a ka ora ia i te iti rawa o te tama kotahi (G.H. Wells) me te tamahine kotahi (Mrs Deborah Wadsworth).