Henry Wilson, Baron Wilson of Langside

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Henry Stephen Wilson, Baron Wilson of Langside PC QC (Scotland) (born March 21, 1916 in Glasgow ; † November 23, 1997 ibid) was a British lawyer and politician of the Labor Party and most recently the Social Democratic Party (SDP), who was under Among other things, he was Lord Advocate for Scotland between 1967 and 1970 and became a member of the House of Lords in 1969 as Life Peer under the Life Peerages Act 1958 .

Life

Unsuccessful House of Commons nominations and Solitor General of Scotland

Wilson, son of a solicitor , began after attending the High School of Glasgow to study law at the University of Glasgow , which he had to interrupt at the beginning of the Second World War . After he had completed his military service in the Highland Light Infantry and the Royal Armored Corps between 1939 and 1945 , he continued his studies and was admitted to the Scottish Bar Association in 1946 ( Faculty of Advocates ). He then worked as a lawyer , before becoming an advocate depute between 1948 and 1951 and thus as a representative of the Lord Advocate Prosecutor for the Crown Office and the Public Prosecutor's Service ( Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service ).

In the general election of February 23, 1950 , he ran for the Labor Party for the first time in the constituency of Dumfriesshire for a member of the House of Commons . After he had unsuccessfully applied for a seat in the House of Commons in the elections of October 25, 1951, also in the constituency of Edinburgh West , he last ran for a seat in the House of Commons in the general election of May 26, 1955 in the Dumfriesshire constituency without success.

After a subsequent further activity as a lawyer he was from 1955 to 1956 Vice Sheriff ( Sheriff Substitute ) of Greenock and then from 1956 to 1965 Vice Sheriff of Glasgow. As the successor to James Graham Leechman Wilson was, at the same time Attorney General ( Queen's Counsel was), 1965 Solicitor General of Scotland and was until 1967 and his replacement by Ewan George Francis Stewart Deputy Lord Advocate.

In December 1963, Wilson survived the fire and sinking of the Greek cruise ship Lakonia off Madeira as a passenger , killing 128 people.

Lord Advocate and Member of the House of Lords

This was followed in 1967 by his appointment as Lord Advocate. As successor to George Gordon Stott , he was such chief legal counsel of the Scottish Executive and the Crown in Scotland for civil and criminal law. Wilson, who also became Privy Councilor (PC) in 1967 , was named a Life Peer with the title Baron Wilson of Langside , of Broughton in the County of Edinburgh, a member of the House of Lords by letters patent dated March 3, 1969 belonged to his death.

In 1970 he was followed by Norman Wylie, Lord Wylie as Lord Advocate, while he himself was Director of the Scottish Court Service between 1971 and 1974 . In this capacity, he was Director of the Administrative Authority for the 49 Sheriff Courts, the Court of Session (the highest civil court in Scotland), the High Court of Justiciary (the highest criminal court) and the Justice of the Peace Courts (the lower criminal courts). Most recently Baron Wilson served as Sheriff Principal of Glasgow and Strathkelvin from 1975 to 1977 .

After 1981 the Labor Party had left, he joined the faction of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and was one of these until the 1,992th Afterwards he was a member of the House of Lords as a so-called crossbencher until his death .

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SURNAME Wilson, Henry, Baron Wilson of Langside
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wilson, Henry Stephen, Baron Wilson of Langside (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1997
Place of death Glasgow