[1][2][3] He held the position of Presidency Port Officer, Madras.

In 1891 he was awarded the Stanhope Gold Medal by the Royal Humane Society for rescuing a seaman from shark infested waters off the Bay of Bengal.

[2][5] In 1894 he was one of the Colonial and Indian notabilities presented at the Queen's Levée at St James's Palace.

During World War I he served as Principal Marine Transport Officer, Mesopotamia (1915) to the fall of Kut-al-amara where he was mentioned in despatches three times and made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George.

[5] He married Mary Lawrence, daughter of Sir John Strachey GCSI, CIE.