After retirement Bourdillon continued to serve on the Colonial Economic and Development Council . He became treasurer and then chairman of the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association . In 1946 , his son , Bernard , who was working in Palestine , was killed in the King David Hotel bombing . He was a director of Barclays Bank ( Dominion , Colonial and Overseas ) , and of Barclays Overseas Development Corporation . He died on 6 February 1948 at St Saviour , Jersey , aged 64
King David Hotel bombing
King David Hotel bombing
Bernard Henry Bourdillon