During the First World War he was chairman of the Carpet Trade Rationing Committee and the Man-Power and Protection Committee and was a member of the Board of Control of the Wool and Textile Industries.
[2] From 1921 to 1938 he owned and lived at Witley Court, which partly burned down in 1937 and was never restored.
He died at the age of 71 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son, also called Herbert.
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