William Grant, Lord Grant

William Grant, Lord Grant (born June 19, 1909 , † November 19, 1972 ) was a British lawyer and politician of the Unionist Party , who was a member of the House of Commons between 1955 and 1962 and from 1962 until his death in 1972 as Lord Justice Clerk held the second highest judicial office in Scotland .

Life

Grant completed a law degree after attending school and then worked as a lawyer. On January 10, 1955, he was appointed as the successor to William Rankine Milligan Solicitor General for Scotland and thus one of the principal legal advisers to the Crown and the Government in Scotland affairs.

In the elections of May 26, 1955 , he was elected as a candidate for the Scottish Unionist Party for the first time to the House of Commons and represented the constituency of Glasgow Woodside until November 21, 1962 . On April 6, 1960, he succeeded Milligans again, now as Lord Advocate . His successor as Solicitor General was again David Anderson . As Lord Advocate, he was not only the chief legal advisor to the Crown and the Government on Scotland affairs, but also one of the Great Officers of State as Attorney General of Scotland . In this post he remained until his replacement on September 25, 1962 by Ian Hamilton Shearer .

On September 25, 1962 he became a judge at the Supreme Civil Court of Scotland (Court of Session) and took over a week later on October 2, 1962 from George Reid Thomson, Lord Thomson , the function of Lord Justice Clerk . He held the second highest judge's office in Scotland after the Lord President of the Court of Session . He held this position until his accidental death on November 19, 1972 and was then replaced by John Thomas Wheatley, Lord Wheatley .

Web links

• William Grant, Lord Grant at Hansard (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Scottish Lords of Sessions ( Memento February 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) in Leigh Rayment Peerage