Robert Munro, 1st Baron Alness

Robert Munro, 1st Baron Alness , GBE , PC , KC , DL (born May 28, 1868 in Alness , Ross-shire , † October 6, 1955 ) was a British lawyer and politician of the Liberal Party who, among other things, between 1910 and 1922 Member of the House of Commons , 1913-1916 Lord Advocate , 1916-1922 Minister of Scotland (Secretary for Scotland) as well as Lord Justice Clerk was from 1922 to 1933 the second highest judges in Scotland. In 1934 he was raised as Baron Alness to the hereditary nobility and was a member of the House of Lords until his death .

Life

Munro, son of the Reverend Alexander Rose Munro and Margaret Sinclair, began after attending the Aberdeen Grammar School to study law at the University of Edinburgh , which he completed in 1888 with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). He completed another postgraduate course at the University of Edinburgh with a Master of Arts (MA). In 1893 he was admitted to the bar as an advocate with the Scottish Bar . For his services as a lawyer and legal adviser to the Internal Revenue Service (Board of Internal Revenue) , he was appointed in 1910 Attorney (King's Counsel) appointed.

On January 15, 1910 Munro was for the first time a member of the House of Commons for the Liberal Party and represented there until December 14, 1918 the constituency of Wick District of Burghs . On October 30, 1913, he replaced Alexander Ure as Lord Advocate and was until his replacement by James Avon Clyde on December 5, 1916 chief legal advisor of the Scottish Executive and the Crown in Scotland for civil and criminal law. As such, he was on 19 December 1913 also a member of the Secret Privy Council ( Privy Council ). In the government of Prime Minister David Lloyd George , he held on 10 December 1916 to 19 October 1922, the office of Minister of Scotland (Secretary for Scotland) . In the general election on December 14, 1918 , he was re-elected to the House of Commons, in which he now represented the constituency of Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire until October 31, 1922 .

Munro, who obtained a Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) in 1919 , succeeded the late Charles Dickson, Lord Dickson, Lord Justice Clerk in 1922 and held the title of Lord Alness in this position until he was replaced by Craigie Aitchison, Lord Aitchison 1933. He was the second highest judge of Scotland after the Lord President of the Court of Session and as such also acted as Lord President of the 2nd Division of the Court of Session . Because of his merits, he was made an honorary citizen ( Freeman of the City ) of Edinburgh in 1923 and in 1924 also a Bencher of the Bar Association ( Inns of Court ) of Lincoln's Inn .

After completing his judicial activity, Munro was raised to the hereditary nobility of the Peerage of the United Kingdom on June 27, 1934 as Baron Alness , of Alness in the County of Ross and Cromarty, and was thus a member of the House of Lords until his death . He served temporarily as Deputy Lieutenant (DL) of Edinburgh and in 1945 as Lord-in-Waiting of King George VI. In 1947 he was beaten to the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE). He was also active as President of the Grotius Society and Vice President of the Building Societies Association and the Royal Caledonian School . In addition, he was director of the insurer General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Corporation .

Munro was married twice, from September 8, 1898 to her death on September 15, 1920 with Edith Gwladys Evans, and from October 29, 1921 to his death on October 6, 1955 with Olga Marie Grumler. Since he died without heirs, the hereditary title of nobility of the Baron Alness became extinct with his death.

Web links

• Robert Munro, 1st Baron Alness at the Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Robert Munro, 1st and last Baron Alness on thepeerage.com , accessed August 14, 2017.

predecessor	Office	successor
New title created	Baron Alness 1934-1955	Title expired