Career
He was trained for the law, but did not make a career of lieutenant He was admitted a solicitor on 31 January 1867, and went into practice at Exmouth. In 1877 he was appointed as librarian to the Incorporated Law Society, retiring in September 1903.
His major work was Modern English Biography.
lieutenant was published in three volumes from 1892 to 1901. These were followed by a supplement of three volumes.
The work eventually contained 30,000 biographies of people dying in the period 1851 to 1900.