His mental decline continued apace until on 15 December 1887 he got lost in the Forest of Mamore while out walking near the Bishop of Argyll's home in Ballachulish. His body was found two days later guarded by the dogs he had been with. After a packed Requiem Mass at St Alban's a special train took mourners to Woking where his body was laid to rest in the cemetery. A cross of Scottish granite was later raised on the spot where he had died, and in the 1890s a chapel was dedicated to his memory at St Alban's.