Wilfrid Normand, Baron Normand

Wilfrid Guild Normand, Baron Normand PC KC (* 6. May 1884 , † 5. October 1962 ) was a Scottish - British politician of the Conservative Party and a lawyer , who some years deputy in the House of Commons , and most recently as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary due of the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 when Life Peer was also a member of the House of Lords .

Life

Attorney, MP and Lord Advocate

After visiting the Fettes College in Edinburgh graduated Normand studying law at Oriel College of the University of Oxford , the University of Paris and the University of Edinburgh and received in 1910 his legal approval to the Scottish Bar Association ( Scots Bar ). He then took up a position as a lawyer ( advocate ) and served during the First World War between 1915 and 1918 for the Royal Engineers . He then worked as a lawyer again and was appointed Crown Attorney ( King's Counsel ) for his legal services in 1925 .

In the general election of May 30, 1929 , he ran for the Conservative Tories in the constituency of Edinburgh West unsuccessfully for a member of the House of Commons and was temporarily in 1929 for the first time Solicitor General of Scotland. In the general election of October 27, 1931 , Norman was elected for the Conservative Party ( Unionist ) in the constituency of Edinburgh West as a member of the Lower House and was a member of this until his resignation in 1935.

During this time he was again Solicitor General of Scotland between 1931 and 1933, before he succeeded Craigie Aitchison as Lord Advocate Attorney General of Scotland in 1933 and held this office until his replacement by Douglas Jamieson in March 1935. As such, he was also Privy Councilor in 1933 and was at the same time by virtue of office between 1933 and 1935 a member of the Committee for the Baronets of the Privy Council. In 1934, he was also named "Honorary Bencher" of the Middle Temple Bar Association ( Inns of Court ) .

Lord Justice General, Lord Justice and Member of the House of Lords

In April 1935, Normand succeeded James Avon Clyde, Lord Clyde as President of the Supreme Civil Court of Scotland ( Lord President of the Court of Session ) and as such also became Lord Justice General and thus President of the High Court of Justiciary . He held these offices until 1947 and was then replaced by Thomas Cooper, 1st Baron Cooper of Culross .

Most recently, Normand, who had also been a member of the Standing Commission for Museums and Galleries (the later Museums, Libraries and Archives Council ) since 1942, became a life peer with the title Baron through a letters patent dated January 6, 1947 based on the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 Normand , of Aberdour in the County of Fife , was appointed a member of the House of Lords to the nobility and worked as Lord Judge ( Lord of Appeal in Ordinary ) until his resignation on October 6, 1953 .

Subsequently, Lord Normand was President of the International Law Association between 1954 and 1955 and Trustee of the British Museum from 1954 until his death in 1962 and, at the same time, Chairman of the Trustees of the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland between 1954 and 1962 .

Publications

• Scottish judicature and legal procedure , 1941

Web links

• Wilfrid Normand in the Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Lords of Appeal in Ordinary 1876-2009 in Peerages
• Proof of publication in the Open Library