He was a public servant, a police magistrate and later chief commissioner of Crown Lands.

It may take fifty chief commissioners and senior supervisors to do the same, but they would cost us only a hundred apiece perhaps.

In 1866 he was made chief commissioner in Mandalay.

During the inter-war years he served as chief commissioner of the Victoria Police.

He returned to the house in 1861, and became chief commissioner of public works.

In 1866 he was appointed chief commissioner for negotiating a fishery convention in Paris.

In 1850 he was appointed chief commissioner of Sindh.

In 1846, he was appointed chief commissioner of public works.

In 1991 he was appointed chief commissioner of police.

He was elected chief commissioner of highways in 1862.