In 1880 he was elected a Senator of the College of Justice and granted the title “Lord Lee”.
He had been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1871, his proposer being David Smith.
[2] In his final years he lived at 12 Rothesay Place in Edinburgh's West End.
The grave lies midway along the south wall of the first northern extension.
Eldest daughter Rose married in 1886 to Cressy Bingham Newland (1852-1921)