Thomas Cooper, 1st Baron Cooper of Culross

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Thomas Mackay Cooper, 1st Baron Cooper of Culross KC PC OBE FRSE ( September 24, 1892 - July 15, 1955 ) was a Scottish judge and politician.

Life

Cooper was born in 1892 to engineers John Cooper and Margaret Mackay . He attended George Watson's College and then moved to Edinburgh University . Cooper earned a bachelor's degree in law and was licensed in 1915. Cooper then completed his master's degree . From 1922 he worked as a lawyer for the city of Edinburgh . In 1927 he was appointed crown attorney . At this point in time he had already been awarded the lowest order of the British Empire .

In 1935, Cooper was installed as Solicitor General for Scotland and accepted into the Privy Council . In the same year he was also appointed Lord Advocate and held this position until 1941. He was installed as Lord Justice Clerk between 1941 and 1946. Between 1947 and 1954, Cooper held the post of Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session . On July 31, 1954, he was given the hereditary British title of Baron Cooper of Culross , of Dunnet in the County of Caithness , and received a seat in the House of Lords . He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh as well as the Royal Asiatic Society . The University of Edinburgh awarded him an honorary doctorate . He was also a Bencher of the Middle Temple . Cooper died in 1955. Since he had no children, his title of nobility expired on his death.

Political career

For the first time, Cooper ran in the 1935 general election to elections at the national level. He ran in the constituency of Edinburgh West for the Unionist Party against the Labor candidate J. Welsh . Cooper received a majority of 67.0% and subsequently moved into the British House of Commons . In 1941, Cooper resigned his mandate and left the House of Commons. His successor Ian Clark Hutchison held the mandate unopposed.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Thomas Mackay Cooper, 1st and last Baron Cooper of Culross on thepeerage.com , accessed April 12, 2015.
  2. ^ The London Gazette, April 8, 1927
  3. ↑ Results of the general election in 1935 ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.politicsresources.net
  4. ↑ AS Kerswill: Vacher's Parliamentary Companion , 1941, p 83rd

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SURNAME Cooper, Thomas, 1st Baron Cooper of Culross
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cooper, Thomas Mackay, 1st Baron Cooper of Culross
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish judge and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1892
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1955