He bought Wateringbury Place, near Maidstone, Kent in 1890 for £20,000. He was an art lover and a discriminating purchaser of pictures, and filled the house with famous works of art. One of these was "Glaucus and Scylla", one of a pair of tondos by Turner, purchased after 1883 for about £570. He sold it in 1901. He also owned a large collection of antique silverware including porringers of the time of "William the Dutchman," antique goblets, vinaigrettes, and the like "in almost endless profusion". He also owned a solid gold bowl once the property of King Thibaw Min, and an extensive assortment of rings, Oriental fetishes and other graven golden images and knick knacks.