 Five years later, an indiscreet speech to the grand jury in Liverpool led to him being rebuked by the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, in the Commons, 'one of the severest ever dealt to an English judge by a minister of the crown'.He died later that year, of pneumonia, in his house, 100 Eaton Square, London, aged 76, also possessed of Barcombe Place, near Lewes, East Sussex.His probate was resworn the next year at .