Career
He wrote regular articles about Indian cookery for the The Madras Mail, Madras Atheneum and The Daily News, using the pen-name Wyvern. These were collected and published in 1878 as Culinary Jottings for Madras, Or, A Treatise in Thirty Chapters on Reformed Cookery for Anglo-Indian Exiles which went through seven editions. Upon retiring from the army and returning to England, he started a cookery school — the Common-sense Cookery Association — in June 1894.
Its premises were at 17 Sloane Street in London.
