[2] Placed on half-pay in 1817, he took up agriculture in Warwickshire, then trained in law, becoming a member of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, and being called to the bar in 1835.

[5] He developed innovate techniques for policing the borough; he introduced its first mounted patrols, and deployed plain-clothes officers at events where pickpockets were likely to operate.

[1] He was appointed a judge in the criminal court of Norfolk Island in June 1846, but by September had returned to Hobart due to ill health.

[1] He also lost his automatic seat on the recently-renamed Tasmanian Legislative Council, but was returned in October 1856 by election,[2][10] representing the electoral division of Cambridge[1] as an independent.

They included:[1][2] His oldest son Francis Jacques, a Captain in the 74th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry, was killed in the Indian Rebellion of 1857.