[6] Hildyard promoted the Bermuda Government's plans to establish birth control clinics on the island in order to "check the growth of the Negro population," because they represented "the biggest problem" of the "Colony's major difficulties" online archive.

Bermuda's population was undergoing rapid and accelerating growth at the time, with fears that it had already passed a sustainable level.

Efforts had also repeatedly been made to compel the emigration of free, and to encourage the export of enslaved, coloured Bermudians.

There had, however, also been considerable immigration since the end of the Nineteenth Century from British West Indian colonies which had added to the coloured population.

[9] Hildyard died on 29 September 1965 and at the time of his death was living at South Hartfield House, Coleman's Hatch, Sussex.