Later Life
He was High Sheriff of Carmarthenshire in 1886 and made an honorary freeman of the town of Carmarthen in 1910.
He died in 1919 at his Dolaucothi Estate, being buried at Caio, Carmarthenshire. He had married in 1882, Elizabeth, younger daughter and coheiress of John Johnes of Dolaucothi, Carmarthenshire and assumed the additional surname of Johnes. He was the brother-in-law of Lieutenant W.G. Cubitt VC.
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