They had three children who lived to adulthood, a daughter and two sons. The daughter married a Royal Marine officer. The younger son Corbet spent a spell in the household of the Lord Mayor of London and then retired to the family home, Hill Green House, in the village of Stockbury near Maidstone. The elder, Charles, followed his father into the army where he was very active in the Zulu wars in South Africa and rose to the rank of Major-General. He did not marry until he was 49; his bride was a descendant of the Scottish Anstruther clan.