which year the first Christmas camp (jamboree) was held at Milang.

Byard closed the school at the end of 1912, citing ill-health.
In later years Byard lived in Reynella. His wife died in 1932 and in April 1935 Byard left on the Orama for England, never to return, living in "North Lodge" or Winstowe Lodge, Charles road, St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex (previously the home of H. Rider Haggard), where he had the services of a nurse.

Publications
Essential Spelling (1914)

Other interests
Byard was captain of the Hahndorf Cricket Club 1888–1894; hon. secretary 1899
He was a Freemason, a member of the Prince of Wales Lodge, Mount Barker.
He served as trustee of the Hahndorf Institute 1893–
He was a vice-president of the Literary and Debating Society, founded in 1910.
He was an enthusiastic member of both the choirmade to and rejected by the Board, Zdravkovich asserts that there was infirmity of proof as to his misconduct such that this court should not accept the conclusion of the Maryland Court of Appeals that he engaged in such misconduct, and contends that he was deprived of a fair opportunity to respond to the charges against him because he was seriously ill at the time of the evidentiary hearing concerning those charges. Zdravkovich, at oral argument and for the first time, also asserted that his suspension should have been imposed nunc pro tunc to February 12, 2001, the date on which he was suspended in this jurisdiction, because over two years have passed between the imposition of his indefinite suspension in Maryland and the consideration of his appeal