[2] The Endymion served on the China station until late May 1902, when she left for the United Kingdom.

She took part in the fleet review held at Spithead on 16 August 1902 for the coronation of King Edward VII,[3] and Paget paid her off at Chatham on 4 September 1902.

[2] In HMS Scylla he served on the North America and West Indies Station carrying out protection duties for the Newfoundland fisheries.

[7] With no opportunity to serve as an admiral during the first world war he gained a commission in the Royal Navy Reserve as a commander, at one point being in charge of an armed yacht to support patrol flotillas in the North Sea, he was promoted in the RNR and retired due to ill health in 1917.

It was said 'the strain of receiving the bereaved widows and mothers at a centre behind the firing line... proved too much for her strength', and she died on 13 September 1918; both deaths adding to the sorrowful and final year of her father Sir William MacGregor (1846–1919).