In later life, he lived at 12 Randolph Crescent in Edinburgh's West End.[4]
He died on 21 July 1927. He is buried in St Johns Churchyard at the west end of Princes Street in Edinburgh.[5] The grave is marked by a simple stone cross and lies in the lower section.
His biography was written by Francis Caird Inglis.
^'SKERRINGTON, Hon. Lord', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 18 Oct 2017