Royal Irish Constabulary, 1882–91. Commandant Oil Rivers Protectorate Force, 1891–92. Vice Consul, 1892–96. Commissioner and Consul General of the Niger Coast Protectorate, 1896–1900. British Military Campaign on Benin, 1897. Awarded the order of KCMG in May 1897. High Commissioner, Southern Nigeria, 1900–1903. Organized colonial expedition against the Aro Confederacy, 1901. Committed suicide, 1909. (British Museum website[285]); Phillips, 2021, 178[122]).