He provided a handsome annuity for poor, shaken, old Nannie; and the rest of the money after paying all expenses he laid out on the endowment of a Village Hall for games and study, social meetings and political discussions, together with provision for an annual stipend of a hundred pounds for the Vicar or curate of the parish who should run this Hall: which was to be a lasting memorial to the Reverend Howel Vaughan Williams, so learned in the lore of Wales.
Having settled all these matters to his satisfaction, and certainly to that of the Revd.

Cadwalladr Jones (who succeeded as Vicar of Pontystrad by a wise nudging and monetary pressure on the part of the late Vicar's son), David returned to London at the close of 1910, took off his clothes and shed his personality.

It was bruited that he had gone abroad to nurse a health that was seriously impaired through his incredible exertions over the Shillito case.

He left his cousin Vivie free to espouse the Suffrage cause, even unto the extremest militancy..