Ness Burgh School Board, and thereafter was officially connected with the Secondary Department of the Inverness High Public School. In 1901 his Uni versity of Aberdeen honoured him with the honorary degree of LL.D. In 1905 Mr. Arthur J. Balfour, then Prime Minister, in consideration of his great services to Celtic, and specially Gaelic, philology, history and literature, recommended him to the King for a Civil List Pension of £90, as from Ist April of that year. Two years later he died suddenly in Stirling, where he had gone on business during the Easter vacation.