 In religion he was an active a supporter of the Congregationalist faith, and he and his brother Henry were founder trustees in 1841 of the Hanham Chapel and in 1843 of the Barton Hill Chapel, both located in the Bristol suburbs.On May 2, 1820 in London he married Mary Steven, third daughter of Robert Steven of Glasgow, Scotland and of Camberwell in Surrey, by whom he had three children, of whom only one survived