he was knighted as a knight commander of the royal victorian order in march 1901, and in february 1902 he was created a baronet, of wimpole street in st marylebone in the county of london. he was president of the royal college of physicians from 1910–1914 and delivered their harveian oration in 1916 on the subject of "harvey, the man and the physician". he was elected a foreign honorary member of the american academy of arts and sciences in 1918.