​ ​liberal salary attached to the office—£1,500 a year—from July, 1853, to the end of the following year, when the assay department was abolished. He afterwards started farming near Malmesbury, combining it with the practice of his profession, but the farming enterprise proving pecuniarily unsuccessful, he removed to Malmesbury, and devoted himself exclusively to his medical practice and the education of his family. He also took an active part in local affairs, was for many years a member of the borough council, several times mayor, and for more than twenty years an active justice of the peace.