[3] In 1872 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being Andrew Wood.
He was chief medical advisor to the Scottish Amicable Life Assurance Company.
[5] He died on 2 October 1879 following a relapse of his earlier typhoid fever, at home at 155 Bath Street in Glasgow.
[8] He was posthumously painted by Sir Daniel Macnee based upon a photograph in later life.
The painting dates from around 1881 and hangs in the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.