After a stay of four years he appeared 2 November 1853 at the Princess's Theatre, under Charles Kean's management, as Victor in the Lancers, or the Gentleman's Son, an adaptation of Le Fils de Famille of Bayard.

During six years he played at this house in various novelties and revivals, including a trifling production from his own pen entitled Music hath Charms (June 1858).

In 1863 he gave, at the Hanover Square Rooms and at St. James's Hall, an entertainment called Facts and Fancies, accompanied by Kate Mellon and Sarah Louisa Kilpack.

When the Globe Theatre, London, opened, 28 November 1868, he was the first Major Treherne in Byron's Cyril's Success, He appeared in succession at Drury Lane, the Olympic, the Globe, the Opera Comique, the Criterion, the Mirror (Holborn) Theatre, now destroyed, and the Princess's, playing in pieces by H. J. Byron, Mr. Boucicault, and other writers.

Concerning his Abbé Latour, John Oxenford said in the Times that "he came to the Adelphi a second-rate eccentric comedian, and showed himself an able supporter of the serious drama".