He was born in
Mandeville, Jamaica in 1853. He was educated at St George's College in
Kingston. He was traveled to
Scotland to study engineering at the
University of Edinburgh, graduating with a BSc around 1873. He was working in Britain as a civil engineer in the 1870s returning to Jamaica in 1882. He was a
Member of the Legislative Council of Jamaica. In 1897 he was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were
Alexander Crum Brown,
Cargill Gilston Knott,
Peter Guthrie Tait and
Andrew Jamieson. He died on 23 December 1930. He is buried in St Mark's Anglican Churchyard in
Mandeville, Jamaica. ==References==