He was subsequently district magistrate and collector at Bulandshahr where he lived at Collector's House from 1876 to 1884. By that time he was a fellow of Calcutta University. In 1878 he commissioned Mainpuri craftsmen to produce reredos for a Catholic church in Suffolk. At the time, the wife of Robert Moss King, district collector of Meerut, visited Growse in Bulandshahr and noted some detail of the reredos production in her memoirs.
