sentences:  Three years later came the appointment as Chief Commissioner of Lower Burma from 2 July 1880 to 2 March 1883, followed by the appointment as Chief Commissioner of Burma from 25 September 1886 to 12 March 1887.From 1887 he was back in London as Secretary of the Department of Revenue, Statistics and Commerce, India Office.In 1862 he married Susan Capel Tawney, and they had eight children.