He was knighted in January 1856.[3] The following February he was appointed Chief Justice of Ceylon to succeed William Ogle Carr.[3] He held the post until 1859 when he was succeeded in turn by Edward Shepherd Creasy.[4][5]
He was married to Frances Elizabeth Storey and lived whilst in Ceylon at The Lodge, Kandy, where they had one child. He died after a short illness on 9 November 1859 at Point de Galle, Ceylon.[7] He was buried at All Saints Church, Galle Fort, Ceylon, aged 58.[8]
References
^England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995
^ abBoase, George Clement (1878). Bibliotheca Cornubiensis: P-Z. Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer. p. 604. Retrieved 10 February 2019. William Carpenter Rowe.