 He was a who campaigned for better housing for agricultural workers and had new thatched cottages built for them in the parish.He is buried at Chalgrove in St Mary's parish churchyard, just south of the chancel.After a long period of stability, the village's population grew very rapidly from fewer than 1,000 residents in 1961 to just over 3,000 by 1996, mainly due to a new housing estate being developed in the area called Sixpenny Fields between the village core and the more recent bypass, the B480 road.