 His proposers were Foster Neville Woodward, Sir Edmund Peder Hudson, William A P Black and Philip Jackson.He died on 31 January 1987.Secretary of John Dewar & Sons 1936-39
Secretary of Distillers Company 1939-43
Director of the Distillers Company 1943- 1960
Director of the Royal Bank of Scotland 1946-66
Chairman of United Glass Ltd 1951-61
Chairman of the Committee on Natural Resources of Scotland 1958-62
Extraordinary Director of the Royal Bank of Scotland 1966-68

In 1917, whilst on leave, he married Jenny Coventry Wood, who died in 1984.