 Educated by his father and at the University of Oxford, he graduated BA from Magdalen Hall in 1833 and MA in 1835.Following admission to deacon´s order, he was appointed curate of St Petrox, Dartmouth, and ordained priest at Exeter in 1834.He returned to Australia in 1836 and was made chaplain at Port Stephens, New South Wales where he remained for 20 years.