 He was Assistant Overseer of the parishes of St Chad and St Alkmund in Shrewsbury as well as the neighbouring rural parishes of Uffington, Withington and Battlefield.He died after an appendicitis operation in a Shrewsbury nursing home on 24 May 1921 aged 48 and was buried in Shrewsbury General Cemetery in Longden Road on 27 May.His home at time of his death was at Villa Nova, Sutton Road.