Subsequently in poor health, he accepted an offer from the Marquess of Salisbury to take over the Parish of Cheshunt, St. Albans, in Hertfordshire in 1932.
It then passed to the Marquess of Salisbury and finally was leased by Colonel James Bourne of Heathfield.
Salisbury | Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis | Salisbury Plain | Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury | Marquess | Salisbury Cathedral | Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings | Salisbury, South Australia | Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley | Marquess of Bute | Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire | Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury | James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie | David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter | Salisbury, North Carolina | Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster | Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey | Frederick Hervey, 8th Marquess of Bristol | Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava | Bishop of Salisbury | Victor Hervey, 6th Marquess of Bristol | Salisbury North, South Australia | Salisbury North | Robert Wynn Carrington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire | Marquess of Rockingham | Marquess of Lansdowne | marquess | John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu | Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon | Earl of Salisbury |
In 1866 he became private secretary to the secretary of state for India, Lord Cranborne (afterwards marquess of Salisbury), and in 1867 went, as in 1864, on a government mission to Venezuela.
In 1853 the editor of American gardening magazine The Horticulturist wrote that the previous year he had been sent a specimen from a plant that had been flowering in the gardens of Hatfield House, the Marquess of Salisbury's stately home in Hertfordshire.
Guest adjudicators at the final have included Michael Gove MP, Secretary of State for Education; Viscount Cranborne, now the Marquess of Salisbury and former Leader of the House of Lords; the historian, Andrew Roberts; Guy Black, Lord Black of Brentwood, Executive Director of the Telegraph Media Group; author and parliamentarian Lord Dobbs, and the acclaimed journalist and leader writer of The Times, Rosemary Righter.