He was commissioned in 1878 from the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was promoted to major in the Essex Regiment in 1895. In 1893 he married Blanche Lintorn Simmons, daughter of Field Marshal Sir Lintorn Simmons.Benewick, Robert, Political Violence and Public Order, London: Allan Lane, 1969, p. 27. The family would later adopt the name of Lintorn-Orman. A daughter was Rotha Lintorn-Orman.
