 His business interests included the Tavistock Bank, Gill and Rundle – Merchants and Carriers, Rundle and Co Gas Works, Gill and Rundle Foundry and a brewery.A canal linking Tavistock to the port at Plymouth was leased by his company and they had their own lime kilns, warehouses and wharves.In the 1840s his business affairs soured and he finally moved to London to live with his daughter where he died in poverty.