Remarks:
At age 13 he joined his elder brother Alexander at Moredun House, Fettes.
He studied Law and became a Writer to the Signet, the Scottish title for a barrister.
He went to Adelaide and returned to Scotland in 1900 when his father Thomas died and from there lived with his mother Elizabeth until her death at Broomknowe in 1919. The next year, aged 58, he married Jean Beckett Allan, aged 31.