Edward Gordon, Baron Gordon of Drumearn

Edward Gordon in a cartoon in Vanity Fair magazine October 10, 1874

Edward Strathearn Gordon, Baron Gordon of Drumearn PC (* 10. April 1814 , † 21st August 1879 ) was a Scottish - British politician of the Conservative Party and a lawyer , who several years deputy in the House of Commons , and most recently as one of the first two Lord of Appeal in Ordinary due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 when Life Peer was also a member of the House of Lords .

Life

Member of Parliament, Lord Justice and Member of the House of Lords

Gordon, son of a major , graduated from school after studying law at the University of Glasgow and the University of Edinburgh and was admitted to the Scottish Bar in 1835 ( Faculty of Advocates ). He then took up a job as a barrister and was later between 1858 and 1866 judge ( sheriff ) of Perthshire .

On December 2, 1867, Gordon, who had previously been Solicitor General of Scotland between 1866 and 1867 , was elected as a candidate for the Conservative Tories for the first time as a member of the House of Commons, where he represented the constituency of Thetford until November 17, 1868 . During this time he was in 1867, succeeding George Patton until his replacement by James Moncreiff 1868 for the first time Attorney General ( Lord Advocate ) of Scotland and received in 1868 the title of a Kronanwalts ( Queen's Counsel ).

After he was re-elected to the House of Commons for the Conservative Party on November 22, 1869, where he represented the constituency of Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities until October 31, 1876 , he became head of the Scottish Bar Association ( Dean of Faculty of Advocates ) and in 1869 retained this position until 1874. Then Gordon, who was also Privy Councilor in 1874 , acted between 1874 and 1876 as the successor to George Young for the second time as Scottish Lord Advocate. In 1876 he was followed by the previous Solicitor General of Scotland, William Watson , as the new Lord Advocate.

Most recently, Blackburn was appointed a member of the House of Lords by a letters patent dated October 17, 1876 on the basis of the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a life peer with the title Baron Gordon of Drumearn , of Drumearn in the County of Stirling, to the nobility and served until on his death in 1879 as Lord Judge ( Lord of Appeal in Ordinary ). He was one of the first two lord judges alongside Colin Blackburn, Baron Blackburn, to become members of the House of Lords on the basis of the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876.

Significant judgments as Lord Judge

During his tenure as Lord Judge, he participated in a number of decisions such as:

• Brogden v Metropolitan Railway Company (1877): In this procedure from English contract law it was decided that a contract can also be accepted through the behavior of the parties. In addition to Lord Chancellor Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns , the former Lord Chancellors Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne , William Page Wood, 1st Baron Hatherley and Baron Blackburn also contributed to this decision .
• Hughes v Metropolitan Railway Co (1877): In this procedure, a decision was made for the first time on the forfeiture ( Estoppel ) of a promissory note . The judgment unfolded its effect over many years and was only renewed by the Central London Property Trust Ltd v High Trees House Ltd proceedings (1947).
• Erlanger v New Sombrero Phosphate Co (1878): it was also about questions regarding In this process, from the Contract Law Corporate Law ( Company Law ). It dealt with resigning for fraud and how the impossibility of redress can be an opportunity to resign. It is also an important example of how representatives of a company are in a fiduciary relationship ( fiduciarity ) with customers and subscribers. Lord Blackburn represented the majority opinion in these proceedings.

Web links

• Edward Gordon at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Lords of Appeal in Ordinary 1876-2009 in Peerages