 Promoted to Rear Admiral, he was appointed Director-General, Future Material Projects in 1987 and Director-General, Naval Manpower and Training in 1988 and then, having been promoted to Vice Admiral, he served as Chief of Fleet Support from 1991 until his retirement in 1994.In retirement he became Director General of the British Standards Institution (BSI) and thereafter Chief Executive of the British Safety Council and, more recently, a Trustee of the Wellington Trust, a charity formed to preserve the sloop HMS "Wellington".He lives at Bramley in Surrey.