James Clyde, Baron Clyde
James John Clyde, Baron Clyde PC , QC (born January 29, 1932 in Edinburgh - † March 6, 2009 ibid) was a senior British judge and a formal member of the British Parliament.
life and career
The son of James Latham Clyde, Lord Clyde attended the Edinburgh Academy in Edinburgh and the Corpus Christi College of the University of Oxford at Oxford , where he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1954 . He then served between 1954 and 1956 in the Intelligence Corps of the British Army and finally promoted to captain . He later studied at the University of Edinburgh , where he graduated in 1959 and received his Bachelor of Law . That same year he was accepted into the Faculty of Advocatesaccepted and practiced as a lawyer .
Because of its legal services he was in 1971 for Attorney General ( Queen's Counsel in) Scotland and was appointed 1972-1985 Chancellor when Bishop of Argyll , Colin MacPherson Aloysius . During this time he served as an advocate depute for the Scottish Public Prosecutor's Office ( Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service ) from 1973 to 1974 and subsequently chairman of the Medical Appeal Tribunal between 1974 and 1985 . Clyde, who from 1977 to 1994 Trustee of the National Library of Scotland , was worked from 1979 to 1985 as a judge at the Court of Appeal ( Court of Appeal ) for Jersey and Guernsey .
He then became a judge ( Lord of Session ) at the Court of Session , the highest civil court in Scotland, in 1985 and served there until 1996. He was also Vice President of the Royal Blind School from 1987 and a member of the Board of Directors of Edinburgh Napier University from 1989 to 1993, and from 1989 to 1997 Assessor to the Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh .
Last Clyde was a Letters Patent of 9 June 1996 under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a life peer with the title Baron Clyde , of Briglands in Perthshire and Kinross to the House of Lords member in the nobility called and worked until 2001 as Lord Justice ( Lord of Appeal in Ordinary ). From 1997 to 1999 he was also chairman of the special board of directors of St Mary's Hospital, London
He had been married since 1963 and had two sons.
Web links
- James Clyde at Hansard (English)
- James John Clyde, Baron Clyd, on thepeerage.com , accessed August 19, 2015.
- Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
- Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
- Lords of Appeal in Ordinary 1876-2009 in Peerages
Individual evidence
- ↑ James John Clyde Obituary . Obituary, in: The Times, March 12, 2009
- ↑ Ordinary Lord of Sessions ( Memento of February 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (Leigh Rayment Peerage)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Clyde, James, Baron Clyde |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Clyde, James John, Baron Clyde (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British judge and life peer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 29, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Edinburgh |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 6, 2009 |
| Place of death | Edinburgh |