 1835) now, 3 Grosvenor Square and one of the few villas still in use, and an owner of Grosvenor Mews, William Oke then served the rest of his career as Justice of the Peace during the reform instituted by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835.Oke worked in Burin, NL through the War of 1812, during a time when the Spurrier business was faltering from neglect and failure to diversify.Although the Newfoundland fishery benefited from the strong price of fish during the American War, prices plummeted at war's end.