Robert Reid, 1st Earl of Loreburn

Robert Reid, 1st Earl of Loreburn

Robert Threshie Reid, 1st Earl Loreburn GCMG PC QC ( April 3, 1846 - November 30, 1923 ) was a British lawyer and politician of the Liberal Party who, among other things, was a member of the House of Commons for 25 years and between 1905 and 1912 Lord Chancellor (Lord Chancellor) was.

Life

Early career

Reid, whose father James John Reid 1837 Chief Justice of the Ionian Islands , was completed after school education at Cheltenham College , first studying at Balliol College of Oxford University , which he with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) completed. After further studies in law , he was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1871 and then took up a position as a barrister .

In March 1880, Reid was elected for the first time as a candidate for the Liberal Party in the Hereford constituency as a member of the House of Commons and was a member of this until November 1885. A few months later he was re-elected as a member of the lower house for the Liberals from July 1886 and represented the interests of the constituency of Dumfries Burgh for almost twenty years until January 1906 .

For his legal services he was first appointed Crown Attorney (Queen's Counsel) in 1882 and also in 1890 as the so-called "Bencher" of the Inner Temple Bar Association.

Government offices

Robert Reid as Attorney General in a cartoon for Vanity Fair magazine (January 10, 1895)

Reid, who was beaten to a Knight Bachelor degree in 1894 and henceforth had the suffix "Sir", succeeded John Rigby as Solicitor General in 1894 and was as such Deputy Attorney General until his replacement by Robert Finlay in 1894 .

In the same year he succeeded Rigby as Attorney General and thus one of the most important advisers to the Crown and the government of Prime Minister Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery . The office of Attorney General he held until the end of the term of the Earl of Rosebery as Prime Minister on June 21, 1895. He was replaced by Richard Webster .

For his many years of service, Reid, who was British legal advisor in arbitration proceedings for border disputes between Colombia and Venezuela between 1898 and 1899, was charged with Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (GCMG) in 1899 . He then acted as legal advisor to the University of Oxford between 1899 and 1906.

On December 10, 1905, Reid succeeded Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury , Lord Chancellor in the cabinet of Prime Minister Henry Campbell-Bannerman . He also held this office in the subsequent government of Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith until June 10, 1912 and was replaced by Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane . In 1905 he was appointed a member of the Privy Council .

By a letters patent from January 8, 1906, Reid was raised as a hereditary peer with the title Baron Loreburn , of Dumfries in the County of Dumfries , and thus also belonged to the House of Lords . Another Letters patent dated July 4, 1911, he was also promoted to Earl Loreburn , of Dumfries in the County Dumfries. When King George V 1911-1912 in India was to there on the so-called " Durbar " on December 12, 1911 in Delhi for Emperor of India to be crowned, Reid was one of the four state councilors (Counselor of State) .

Since Reid's two marriages remained childless, his titles expired upon his death.

Web links

• Robert Reid at Hansard (English)
• Entry on cracroftspeerage.co.uk
• Entry in leighrayment.com
• Robert Threshie Reid, 1st and last Baron Loreburn on thepeerage.com , accessed August 19, 2015.

predecessor	Office	successor
New title created	Earl Loreburn 1911-1923	Title expired
New title created	Baron Loreburn 1906-1923	Title expired