[4] He moved to Australia in 1863 and became a manager on a cattle station in the Barcoo River region in the British colony of Queensland the following year.

He undertook several punitive expeditions against local Aboriginal people in the region after the killing of fellow Barcoo pastoralists John Fanning and Richard Welford, and was also involved in suppressing cattle stealing activities in the area.

In the 1880s he sent cattle to the newly established Ord River pastoralist properties and part-owned the Lissadell Station there.

[1][7] In the 1883 election, Lumley Hill contested Cook (then a 2-member electorate) but was unsuccessful, being defeated by Frederick Cooper and John Hamilton.

[2][15] His body was brought by train to Roma Street railway station from where his funeral left for the Toowong Cemetery on 29 October 1909.