 For a period from 1865 to 1870 he was Secretary of the Church Mission Society for Kent, Surrey and Sussex.This was followed by a three-year period as Superintendent of Missionaries and Clerical Secretary of the London Diocesan Home Mission, a role that he undertook again from 1886 to 1890.He was perpetual curate of St. Andrew's Watford from 1873 until 1878 and chaplain in Rome from 1878 to 1879.