The artist was Middlesex-born, married to Elizabeth (1866), and lived in Wanstead, Essex (1871, 1881). He exhibited West Side, St Michael's Bay, Cornwall at the RA in 1882.

He disappears from artist's lists thereafter, and his wife is shown to have become a governess to a nearby leather merchant's family (1891). A person of the same name of Wilberforce Haddon, with the same birth year, is registered as dying in South Stoneham, Hampshire in 1893.