Career
Born in Spean Bridge, Lochaber, Scotland on 10 January 1843, he was ordained to the priesthood on 26 April 1868. He was appointed the Bishop of the Diocese of Dunkeld by the Holy See on 21 February 1901, and consecrated to the Episcopate on 1 May 1901. The principal consecrator was Archbishop James August Smith of Street Andrews and Edinburgh, and the principal co-consecrators were Bishop William Turner of Galloway and Archbishop John Aloysius Maguire of Glasgow.
He died in office on 24 September 1912, aged 69.