LSA 1828; MRCS 1829.
Greaves studied medicine at St Thomas's and Manchester and began his career as a general practitioner in Hulme. Greaves was surgeon to the Manchester and Salford Lying-in Hospital in the 1830s before being appointed consultant surgeon to Chorlton Union Hospital (later Withington Hospital). Greaves was a lecturer in forensic medicine at the Royal Manchester School of Medicine from the 1850s and in 1861 was appointed lecturer on obstetric medicine. Greaves was a member of Manchester Medical Society . Greaves died on blood poisoning after pricking his finger during an operation. According to a transcript of his burial stone, his death occurred in 1860 and he was aged sixty three.