Worked as surveyor for the Bridewell and Bethlem hospitals (1816–36), St Katharine's Dock Company (from 1825), St Bartholomew's Hospital, in succession to his father (1826–56), the Goldsmiths' Company (1828–68), the Westminster Bridge estates (from 1829), Lord Salisbury's London estate (1829–35), and the London and Birmingham Railway Company (from 1839).