 He served as minister of religion in Loughborough, Doncaster, and Toxteth Park (Liverpool).While in England he made literary contribution to several journals, notably a series "Lives of the Apostles" for the "Christian Witness".In 1860 he emigrated with his wife and children to South Australia, where he was appointed minister of the Clayton Congregational Church in a part of Kensington now known as Beulah Park.