 This dignity, revived at his own suggestion after a long interval of dormancy, entitled him to a seat in the House of Lords "ex officio", but gave him no right of speaking, unless consulted, or of voting.He became judge of the Whitechapel County Court in March 1847, from which he retired in February 1863 on an annual pension of £700.He died at 44 Phillimore Gardens, South Kensington, London, on 29 August 1866.