sentences:  He also served as a magistrate, and was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of the counties of Ross and Cromarty and Invernesshire.Having retired from trade in 1839 he made a land deal purchasing the Ardintoul estate, with more land acquired at Inverinate on Loch Duich in 1844.To his own disappointment he was not a successful farmer on the sparsely-populated lochside, but proved a developer and builder.