 Despite his reputation as a hunter, he campaigned to end the clubbing of grey seals around the coast.Aided by his friend Charles Lyell MP, he was successful in seeing the "Grey Seals (Protection) Act" passed unopposed in 1914, Britain's first legal protection for non-game mammals.His article "Slaughtered for Fashion" in the March 1914 "Pearson's Magazine" argued to protect birds from slaughter for their feathers for hats, the so-called plume hunting.