Marriage, Death and Recognition
He married another poet, Agnes Kilpatrick Dunsmuir (1909–1999), known as "Nessie Dunsmuir". He died on 9 January 1986.
In 2006, 20 years after his death, memorial plaques were unveiled in Fore Street Madron where he spent his final years, and at his birthplace, 1 Hope St Greenock.
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