In 1912, he returned to Manchester University as a Junior Demonstrator in Anatomy, working under Prof. Grafton Elliot Smith.

He also received the degree of Doctor of Medicine (MD) in 1915 with a Gold Medal for a thesis on the supply of blood to the brain.

He began researching sensation in the peripheral nerves during this time, on a budget from the Ministry of Pensions that obtained for ten years.

[citation needed] In 1958 he was nominated under the terms of Life Peerage Act by the Prime Minister to a receive letters patent, which duly arrived by 8 August.

However during early retirement he had fallen ill. Lord Stopford never made a speech in the House, dying on 6 March 1961.

A selection of these appointments are below: Stopford was made a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1927;[1] the first medical graduate from Manchester University to receive such an accolade.