The father died on 10 March 1797, and John Prior Estlin of Bristol edited, with a memoir, two volumes of his sermons.
at Glasgow University in 1813, was called to the bar as a member of the Middle Temple (7 February 1823), chose the western circuit, and became recorder of Bath.
In 1840 and 1841 he communicated to the Society of Antiquaries of London two papers of Remarks upon the Letters of Thomas Winter and the Lord Mounteagle, lately discovered by J. Bruce.
[1] Jardine edited from a manuscript in the Bodleian Library A Treatise of Equivocation, 1851, and translated F. C. F. von Mueffling's Narrative of my Missions in 1829 and 1830, 1855.
To the Lives of Eminent Persons, in the Library of Useful Knowledge, published by the same society, he contributed a Life of Lord Somers.