 Through his work, he commissioned or advised on stage designs by many well-known English painters, notably John Piper.After retiring from LWT in 1979, he was a visiting teacher at the theatre department at the Croydon College of Art (now part of Croydon College), a governor of the Medway College of Design (now part of the University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester), and chairman of the Friends of Charing Cross Hospital.He devoted his last years to volunteer work at the Hospital, where he is remembered as a welcome and benevolent presence.