Letter-press printer and local preacher of Halifax. He wrote and published A History of Wesleyan Methodism in Halifax (1836) and from 1838 was proprietor and publisher of the Halifax Guardian. A local preacher for 33 years, he was influential in the founding of the LPMAA, recalling how as a Poor Law Guardian he had been moved when a venerable local preacher had been obliged to seek poor relief in Halifax. A supporter of the Tory Radical factory reform movement, he was also a prominent campaigner for the release of Richard Oastler from prison.