Many of his characteristics were distinctly inherited from him by his daughter Charlotte; among others, his literary bent. He was fond of writing, and in his well-occupied life he found some time to indulge the play of his fancy. In the year 1835 he published a volume of plays and enigmas, called _The Tragedies of Harold and Camoens_, dedicated to the Duke of Wellington, for whom he and his family had the deepest esteem and admiration.