They married on 11 June 1844,[8] and they had five children: four daughters (Mary-Louisa, Ida-Margaret-Helen, Sarah-Matilda and Elisabeth-Bertha) and one son (the fourth child), William Roger, born at 10 Chanonry, Old Aberdeen, on 9 February 1857.

[citation needed] He was educated at the same school as his father, Eton College, Windsor, where he studied from 1871 to 1873, boarding at Edward Peake Rouse's house and later on at Oscar Browning's.

The following year, he changed direction, starting legal studies for the bar at Middle Temple, London.

[citation needed] He appears as a resident of Vathy, Samos from 1897 to his death, 1921, from a number of periodicals which show this address and some of his published letters.

[citation needed] He published the following books:[18] His works are extensively quoted as the main references both for the Greek Anthology as well as for Polybius.