[4] At Imperial College from 1913 he set about a much-needed reorganisation of the organic chemistry department.With the outbreak of war in 1914 he threw himself into war work [5] and proved to be a creative administrator within, amongst others, the Chemical Defence and Trench Warfare committees, and from 1916-1922 he served on the Advisory Council to the newly formed and highly influential Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR).