He served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1902.
[citation needed] He received an honorary doctorate (DD) in 1881 from Glasgow University.
In 1903 (along with the Very Rev John Pagan) he was one of the several former Moderators invited to the official coronation of King Edward VII.
[1] He retired to Edinburgh living at 9 Coates Gardens in the West End.
[2] He died in 1925 and is buried with his wife in Dean Cemetery in western Edinburgh.