After Parliament
He became a Privy Counsellor in 1937.
Foot served as Vice President of the Methodist Conference (1937–38) and as President of the Liberal Party (1947).
In 1945 he was chosen unanimously as Lord Mayor of Plymouth, despite not being a member of the council. Foot also served as Deputy-Chairman of the Cornwall Quarter Sessions in 1945, and was Chairman from 1953 to 1955, a distinction rarely granted to a solicitor.
Exeter University awarded him the honorary degree of DLitt in 1959.
Foot also built up a library of over 70,000 books at his home near Callington and would wake at five in the morning in order to read them. In old age he taught himself Greek, so as to read the New Testament in the original.
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