 He remained active with academic groups and, in 1921, he accepted the position of president of the Cambridge Historical Society.He died at his home in Cambridge on March 3, 1935 at the age of eighty-four.The Dutch theologian Erasmus (1466–1536) was the inspiration for Emerton's "Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam", first published as one section of a multi-author compilation called "Heroes of the Reformation".