Volume VIII was published in 1847 after Gurwood's death. There was a continuing problem with pirate publications and, in order to enable Gurwood to bring a court case, in March 1845 the Duke assigned Gurwood sole copyright. Later life Gurwood was made a Companion of the Bath in 1838, and in March 1839 he was given a pension of £200pa for Literature and Service. In September 1839 the Queen of Portugal nominated him a Knight Commander of the Tower and the Sword. In November 1839 he was appointed Deputy Lieutenant at the Tower of London on the recommendation of the Duke who was the Constable. The Secretary at War, T.B. Macaulay, pointed out that garrison sinecures were supposed to be abolished on vacancy, but the Duke argued that in these times of civil unrest it was essential to do everything to ensure the security of the Tower. In December 1840 Gurwood bought a house at 70 Lowndes Square and his family, who had spent much of their time in Paris, came to live in London. As in Paris, they moved in literary and social circles. Eugenie Mayer was much admired and it was at this time that she met Balliol Brett whom she later married. In addition to his work on the Duke's papers Gurwood was engaged in a very public altercation with Sir William Napier. Gurwood disagreed with the accounts in Napier's HIstory of the rivalry between the 43rd and the 52nd in the capture of the howitzer at Sabugal and, more personally, of his own role in the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo. When Volume IV of the History came out in 1834 he sent Napier privately a lengthy description of his and his party's actions during the siege. In 1838 he put the matter into the public domain with a footnote in Volume VIII of the Dispatches stating that Napier had been misinformed about the siege and that a correct statement had been forwarded to him for use in a future edition. Napier retaliated in Volume VI of the History published in 1840 saying that Gurwood's recollections were confused by the head wound he had received, and that the recollections of other officers were completely different. He printed a long extract from a memoir by a Major Mackie who claimed to have been the person to whom the Governor surrendered, and who alleged that Gurwood had taken the