 In April 1876 he became superintending officer of garrison instruction at Aldershot, and in 1880 superintendent of Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills.He was promoted to colonel in 1881, and commanded the artillery in the south-eastern district from May 1886 to June 1887, when he was appointed director of artillery studies at Woolwich.On 1 October 1889 he was appointed director of the Artillery College, and given the temporary rank of major-general.