He was one of Foundation Fellows of the College of the Guardians of the Holy House, being elected in 1931.

To quote from another notice of his passing he was an "engineer, scientist, explorer and artilleryman." Among his outstanding achievements he built the first railway to Jerusalem and was one of the original geological party to discover gold in Klondike. He was a great traveller, having visited all the countries of the world.

Deeply impressed by the Spiritual Exercises of S. Ignatius, he determined to spread the knowledge of the Manresa in this country, and so he founded the Society of Retreat Conductors, giving the land and raising the necessary buildings at Stacklands, in Kent. Moreover, he built and furnished the Chapel of SS. Thomas and Philip in the Pilgrimage Church. This he did to the honour of Our Lady and in memory of two of his great friends, Father Wilmot-Philips and Father Arthur Tooth. The latter had a great devotion to S. Thomas of Canterbury, and one of his great desires was to re-erect his Shrine in the Trinity Chapel of Canterbury Cathedral; indeed plans for this were being prepared, but the offer was rejected. It was through a happy coincidence when a relic of this Martyr was given to the Shrine that this was placed in a feretory beneath the altar beside which Father Tooth's effigy lies.

The Major always persevered in whatever he undertook. He frequently cycled from Kent to Walsingham, even when he was nearing his 80th year, in these latter days. In order to avoid the traffic of London he pedalled to the Shrine and back via the South Coast, skirting the border of Wales! Always a keen Catholic, a personal friend of Dr. Pusey, in whose house he passed much of his youth, he had a great devotion to Our Lady and her Sanctuary at Walsingham and a lively interest in all the works connected with it.

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