Robert Borwick was made a Knight Bachelor in 1902 and created a Baronet (in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom), of Eden Lacy in the County of Lancaster, in 1916.
In 1922 he was further honoured when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Borwick, of Hawkshead in the County of Lancaster, for "providing hospital treatment for the sick and wounded Colonial officers throughout the war".
He was also a Knight of Grace of the Order of St.
John of Jerusalem.
Lord Borwick married in 1872, Caroline (d.
April 1936), daughter of the Reverend Richard Daniel Johnston of Kurnool, India.
They had two sons and seven daughters.
Latterly the family resided almost continually in Nice and Paris.
He died in January 1936, aged 91, and was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son George.
He is buried in the Cimetière du Château in Nice.