By 1809, he was aboard St George, the flagship of Rear-Admiral Francis Pickmore in the Baltic Sea.

He later served on the massive San Josef (captured at Cape St. Vincent in 1797) and from May 1810, aboard the frigate Unité.

Promoted lieutenant on 17 June 1811, he was badly injured not long afterwards in a fall from the quarterdeck, and was invalided out in August 1811 to recover.

From 1819 to 1822, he served in Harlequin off the coast of Ireland, and was promoted to post-captain on 23 April 1822, but saw no further service after that year.

He inherited the family baronetcy in 1835 from his brother John, a captain in the Royal Regiment of Artillery, and it became extinct upon his death at Clifton, Bristol in 1869.