He graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1623 and was elected fellow in 1624.
He was admitted to Street Mary Hall, Oxford, in 1618, and to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1620. He was awarded a Doctor of Divinity at Cambridge in 1642. He became Chaplain Extraordinary to Charles I.
Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1660 to 1662.
Dean of Ely, about 1662. Bishop of Chester, February 1662, and died in Chester five weeks after his consecration, on 16 March.