 Against Warwickshire he bowled only five overs, but took what was to prove his last wicket, that of Willie Quaife; in his very last match, against Gloucestershire, he bowled not a ball.He became a clergyman and was from 1955 to 1960 the vicar of Walton-on-Thames, Surrey.He died at the age of 63 in Ewhurst, Surrey.