He was actively involved with the Gawler Institute (which sponsored the contest won by Caroline Carleton and Carl Linger's Song of Australia), Freemasons, the Gawler Agricultural Society, the Building Society, and the Gawler Rifles (the local branch of the voluntary militia) and the School of Mines and Industries.
His burial at Willaston cemetery was attended by a large contingent from Adelaide and locally [REF].