James Avon Clyde, Lord Clyde

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James Avon Clyde, Lord Clyde KC PC JP DL ( November 14, 1863 - June 16, 1944 ) was a Scottish politician and lawyer.

Life

Clyde was born in 1863 to the lawyer James Clyde . He attended the Edinburgh Academy and the University of Edinburgh , which he left in 1884 as a Master of Law. In 1887 he was admitted to the bar. In 1895 Clyde married Anna Margaret McDiarmid , the daughter of a doctor from Cambridge . He was appointed Crown Attorney in 1901, and in 1905 he was Solicitor General for Scotland . In 1910 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in law. He served as Dean of the Law School and held the position of Lord Advocate between 1916 and 1920 . In 1916, Clyde was also elevated to the Privy Council . He also served as Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for Kinross-shire . Clyde died in 1944.

Political career

For the first time Clyde appeared in the general election of 1906 for elections at the national level. He ran for the Conservative Party for the constituency of Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire , but could not prevail against his liberal opponent Eugene Wason , who had held the constituency mandate since 1899. In the meantime converted to the Liberal Unionists , Clyde applied again for a lower house mandate in the by-elections in the constituency of Edinburgh West in 1909 . For the by-elections, which were a consequence of the resignation of the liberal unionist Lewis McIver , there was no opposing candidate, so that Clyde received the lower house mandate without a vote. In the following general election in January and December 1910 , Clyde held his mandate against the liberals Charles Henry Lyell and John Hartman Morgan, respectively . He did not run for the general election in 1918 and left the British House of Commons.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Debrett’s Guide to the House of Commons 1918, p. 34.
  2. ↑ a b James Clyde in Hansard (English)
  3. ^ FWS Craig: British Parliamentary Election Results 1918-49 , McMillan, 1974, p. 534. ISBN 978-0-9001-7801-6
  4. ^ The Constitutional Yearbook 1912, p. 236
  5. ^ Debrett's Guide to the House of Commons 1916, p. 210.

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SURNAME Clyde, James Avon, Lord Clyde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1863
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1944