 He was also assessor to the mayor's court, Liverpool, and a member of the municipal corporation's commission.He died at Gateacre, near Liverpool, on 25 March 1836.Roscoe wrote "Lives of Eminent British Lawyers" (1830), as one of the volumes of "Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia", and "The Life of William Roscoe" (2 vols.