Ian Fraser, Baron Fraser of Tullybelton
Walter Ian Reid Fraser, Baron Fraser of Tullybelton (born February 3, 1911 in Glasgow - † February 17, 1989 ) was a British judge.
life and career
Ian Fraser was born on February 3, 1911, the only child of Alexander Reid Fraser and his wife Margaret Russell MacFarlane. He attended the Repton School and later studied philosophy, politics and economics at Balliol College in Oxford , which he left in 1932 as one of the best of the year ( first-class honors ). He graduated from the University of Glasgow with a Bachelor of Laws in 1935. The following year he was admitted to the Scottish Faculty of Advocates , where he soon earned a reputation as an excellent lawyer. In addition to the practical, he also taught at the University of Glasgow and from 1948 at the University of Edinburgh . His Outline of Constitutional Law , published in 1936 (2nd edition 1948) , soon became the standard work on British constitutional law.
During the war he first served as a non-commissioned officer in an anti-aircraft battery of the Territorial Army . He later moved to the Royal Artillery , rose to the rank of major and served in the theater of war in Burma . In 1945 he was appointed Advocate Depute and eventually rose to become Home Depute of the Crown Office . In 1953 he was appointed to the Queen's Counsel . In 1954 he was a member of the Scottish Law Reform Committee and from 1960 to 1962 of the Royal Commission on the Police. From 1959 to 1964 he served as dean of the Faculty of Advocates, from 1964 to 1974 he was senator of the College of Justice and at the same time held the title of Lord Fraser . In 1974 he was appointed to the Privy Council , named Life Peer , Baron Fraser of Tullybelton, of Bankfoot in the County of Perth , and assumed the office of Lord of Appeal in Ordinary . Ian Fraser was a very active member of the House of Lords , primarily concerned with issues relating to the advancement of the administration of justice. In his retirement he was still a member of the university commission for reforming the higher education system. He died on February 17, 1989 in a car accident on the M90 between Perth and Edinburgh during a snow storm.
Awards
Fraser was a member of the Royal Company of Archers . In 1975 he was made Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors of Gray's Inn and in 1981 an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College. He received an honorary doctorate ( Legum Doctor ) from the University of Glasgow in 1970 and from the University of Edinburgh in 1978.
family
On November 8, 1943, Ian Fraser married Mary Ursula Cynthia Gwendolen Macdonnell, daughter of Colonel Ian Harrison Macdonnell, with whom he had a son named Andrew.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
- Entry at hansard.com
- Short biography in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fraser, Ian, Baron Fraser of Tullybelton |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fraser, Walter Ian Reid, Baron Fraser of Tullybelton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British judge |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 3, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Glasgow |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 17, 1989 |
| Place of death | between Perth and Edinburgh |