He wrote two textbooks on analytical geometry, The Principles of Analytical Geometry (1826) and An Analytical System of Conic Sections (1828; 5th edn, 1843). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1828 as "a gentleman well versed in mathematics",[2] and was also elected FRS (Edinburgh) in 1822, as well as FRAS and FGS.
He became a curate in Cambridgeshire in 1825 and the rector of Wath near Ripon in 1830,[3] becoming a rural dean in 1847. In 1850 he was appointed Dean of Salisbury, a position he filled until his death in 1880.
He took a great interest in children's education, delivering sermons and writing a book on the subject, Practical Remarks on Popular Education (1847).
He died at the Salisbury deanery in 1880.
Family
He had married Ellen Masson, daughter of Thomas Masson of Copt Hewick, Yorkshire, with whom he had one daughter, Katherine Jane (died 1928), who married Sir Edward Hulse, 5th Baronet.[4]