 He was co-founding director of the International Distillers & Vintners in 1962, and the first chairman of the newly created IDV Europe in 1972.He retired from the board of IDV in 1983, and died in 2006, aged 88, and is buried with his wife at Burvale Cemetery, Hersham, Surrey.In March 2008 a cache of arms was discovered during a house-clearance in a property in Walton-on-Thames.