 His wife’s extravagance and his own susceptibility to gambling left him with sizeable debts.He seems to have tried to avoid the debts by moving around the country.He left Herne Bay in Kent and moved to Swanage in Dorset, then to Bournemouth in Hampshire, where his brother Richard Francis Pechey (1872–1963) had become the Vicar of Holy Trinity Church in 1919.