 Promoted to lieutenant general in January 1805, he was appointed Colonel of the Regiment of the 5th West India Regiment (February 1806); of the 85th Regiment of Foot (October 1806); and, of the 11th (North Devonshire) Regiment (25 February 1807), for which he raised a second battalion in the space of six months.He continued to serve on the Staff until 1812, and on 4 June 1814 he was promoted to general.In 1820 he was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Hanoverian Guelphic Order.