Early Life
He was born in Edinburgh and attended the Edinburgh Academy. At 14, he began articles as an actuary at his father's office. He joined University of Edinburgh as a medical student and received his medical degree in 1856. He retired in 1903 after four decades at the centre of organised science in New Zealand. He died in Lower Hutt in 1907.
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