He was a first-rate lawyer, had a good knowledge of commercial matters, great shrewdness and a quick intellect, while he was also painstaking and scrupulously fair.

[1] When the rules of the Supreme Court 1883 came into force in the autumn of that year, Field was so well recognized authority upon all questions of practice that the Lord Chancellor Lord Selborne selected him to sit continuously at Judge's Chambers in order that a consistent practise under the new rules might as far as possible be established.

This he did for nearly a year, and his name will always, to a large extent, be associated with the settling of the details of the new procedure, which finally did away with the former elaborate system of special pleading.

[1] In 1890, he retired from the bench and was raised to the peerage as Baron Field, of Bakeham in the County of Surrey, on 10 April 1890.

Lord Field resided in Walton Hall, Warwickshire and Pitfour Castle in St Madoes, Perthshire.