 From 1898 to 1899 he was President of the Royal Medical Society.He received his MD in 1899 with a gold medal from the University of Edinburgh.From 1908 until 1948 he held the Chandos Chair of Medicine and Physiology at the Bute Medical School, at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, during which time he described what are now known as Herring bodies, in 1908.