 This could explain the Italian features seen at Falcondale.Once his training for the bar had ended he decided not to follow his Uncle into Harford bank, but "settle at Falcondale, and gradually to bring order out of the chaos into which the estate had sunk, and to provide decent houses and buildings for tenants".His letters of 1854 to his uncle explains his motivations which contain a hint of the Harford family's Quaker philanthropy.