 He was again seconded for staff service in May 1907 and appointed extra ADC to Sir H. J. Goold-Adams, Lieutenant-Governor Orange River Colony.On 9 June 1909, he married Lady Judith Sydney Myee Wynn Carrington, daughter of Charles Wynn-Carington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire, at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster.They had five children before her death in 1928