 He was appointed president of the board of conciliation in 1894, but resigned some 15 months later.Bundey retired on a pension in 1903, was knighted in 1904, and died on 6 December 1909 at his home at Mount Lofty in South Australia.In 1865 he married Ellen Wardlaw, daughter of Sir William Milne, who survived him with a daughter, Ellen Milne Bundey.