He spent much of his working life in the first-fruits department of the office Queen Anne's Bounty in the Temple, London.
authorised them to effect a sale of their landed property, he purchased the reversion of the manor-house and the whole of their estate in the parish of Friern Barnet.
[1] His edition of John Ecton's Liber regis, vel thesaurus rerum ecclesiasticarum, a detailed account of the valuations of all ecclesiastical benefices which were charged with first fruits and tenths, was published in 1786.
[4] Severe comments were made at that time in the 'Gentleman's Magazine' on the omission of any mention in the title-page or the preface of the previous compilation of Ecton.
His only daughter, Maria, was married in 1802 to Sir William Johnston, of that ilk, Aberdeenshire.