In 1890, de Glanville moved to Burma as the local agent of the British and Foreign Bible Society, serving until 1893.
He subsequently practiced as a lawyer, specialising in criminal law, becoming officiating Public Prosecutor in the Rangoon police courts in 1894.
A second motion was carried in August the same year, but the Governor, Sir Hugh Stephenson, declined the request.
Made to leave his house by the Japanese military authorities, de Glanville died sometime in 1942 and was buried in the local Christian cemetery.
His youngest child, Stephen de Glanville, later served in the Burma Frontier Service.