 Invested as a Privy Counsellor on 25 November 1919, he was Lord Justice of Appeal from 1919 to 1923.On 12 October 1923, he was appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and was created a life peer with the title Baron Blanesburgh, "of Alloa in the County of Clackmannanshire".Having been knighted on 20 April 1915, he was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in 1917.