He was educated at Harrow School, before going up to Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
While studying at Oxford, he made his debut in first-class cricket for Oxford University in 1843, making two appearances at Oxford against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and Cambridge University.
He made further first-class appearances, in 1845 for the Gentlemen of England against the Gentlemen of Kent at Canterbury, and in 1846 for the MCC against the Surrey Club and for the Gentlemen of England against the Gentlemen of Kent.
After graduating from Oxford, he became a farmer at Slinfold in Sussex and served as a magistrate at Brighton.
He died at Westminster in November 1858.
His brother was Sir John Edmund Commerell, the Admiral of the Fleet.