 He spent the last thirty years of his life back in Dublin, where he taught at Alexandra College and also served as Vice Warden there.He was an early proponent of women being allowed access to the highest echelons of education, and in 1892 he published the pamphlet "Suggestions on the Subject of University Degrees for Women" in which he urged that his alma mater TCD should admit female students (which they finally did in 1904).R.