Two years later he graduated as senior classic, second chancellor's medallist, and twenty-seventh wrangler, and in 1839 he was elected a Fellow of his college.
For some years he worked at Cambridge, acting as steward and assistant tutor of Trinity, and he was proctor of the university in 1845–6.
[2] He was appointed Hulsean lecturer for 1849 and 1850, and Boyle lecturer for 1857 and 1858, was a member of the royal commission on clerical subscription in 1865, and of the ritual commission in 1869, and was one of the company appointed by Convocation in 1870 for the revision of the authorised version of the New Testament.
[2] In 1852 he married Caroline Maria, only daughter of George D'Oyly, D.D., rector of Lambeth.
[2] On 6 April 1875 their daughter Mary Caroline married the scholar Arthur John Butler (1844–1910).