[5][6] Returning to England, in 1692 he bought the Codnor Castle estate and for the rest of his life divided his time between Derbyshire and London.

Streynsham Master had a distinguished career in the East India Company (EIC) right from his early days.

In the meantime, until the end of Langhorne's tenure, Master served for a time as the Agent of the company's factory at Masulipatnam and then Bengal, where he was tasked with introducing a new administrative system for the factories on the Hooghly River; lastly he was sent back to Fort St. George to take office as the second member of the EIC Council.

A month later, when Lingappa visited Kasi Veeranna to express his condolences on the death of the former's wife, he asked the latter the reason why the Agent had not sent anyone to receive.

To this Kasi Veeranna delivered an extremely arrogant reply which left the Naik fuming with anger.

When Kasi Veeranna died in 1680, Lingappa sent a Havildar named Shakeel Ahmed to take over the settlement of Madras from the company.

At one point of time, the situation became so serious that the Directors of the Council even contemplated the thought of moving the company's factory to Gingee.

Hence, in 1678, the Government of Fort St George set up a judiciary with the Agent and the members of the council as judges.

Master is credited with having introduced the role of a scavenger who was required to remove the dirt and filth of the streets.