Late Career
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1895 and knighted KCB in 1897.
He was a member of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers.
He was chairman of Cable and Wireless from 1900 to 1917.
In 1902 Wolfe-Barry joined the consulting firm Robert White & Partners, and it was renamed Wolfe-Barry, Robert White & Partners (later, 1946, Sir Bruce White, Wolfe Barry and Partners – now part of London-based consultancy Hyder Consultants).
Wolfe-Barry died in January 1918 and was buried in Brookwood Cemetery near Woking in Surrey.
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