 He died of a heart attack whilst already in the Anglo-American Hospital in Cairo on 8 January 1925.His funeral was attended by Lord Allenby who was in Cairo at the time and by officials from the Egyptian government but no Scottish friends or family attended, having no time to reach Cairo in the customary 24 hours permitted in Arabic countries between death and funeral.As he was unmarried and had no heir he left his money all to pay additional stipends to teachers at both McGill University and Manchester University.