Travelled throughout the British Isles as a Quaker minister and represented Cumberland at the Yearly Metting in London.
Inherited a considerable amount of property in Moorhouse from his first wife.
During the 1745 Jacobite rebellion, he probably entertained Bonnie Prince Charlie and met the Duke of Cumberland.
Died childless, leaving the Moorhouse estate to his nephew, Thomas of Newtown.
His Testimonial is in Friends' House London and his biography appears in "EARLY CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND FRIENDS" by R.S. Ferguson (1871).