He was governor of Cardiff Royal Infirmary and President of the Royal Hamadryad Seamen's Hospital. It had replaced a hospital ship, the former HMS "Hamadryad", in 1905. A hamadryad (; ) is a Greek mythological being that lives in trees. If the tree died, the hamadryad associated with it died as well. HMS "Hamadryad" was a 46-gun fifth-rate Modified of the Royal Navy. The king cobra or hamadryad has a crown-like symbol on its head. "Hamadryad" was refloated and towed away to be scrapped.