William Watson, Baron Thankerton

William Watson, Baron Thankerton PC KC ( December 8, 1873 - June 13, 1948 ) was a Scottish - British politician of the Unionist Party and lawyer , who was a member of the House of Commons for ten years and was most recently Lord of Appeal in Ordinary due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 when Life Peer was also a member of the House of Lords .

Life

Lawyer and Member of the House of Commons

Watson was the son of barrister William Watson , who was later also a member of the House of Commons and most recently Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. After visiting the Winchester College , he completed his father to study law at Jesus College of the University of Cambridge and received after the end of 1899 in the year of death of his father, the lawyer for approval to the Scottish Bar Association ( Scots Bar ). He then took up a position as a lawyer ( Advocate ) and was appointed Crown Attorney ( King's Counsel ) for his legal services in 1914 .

On December 12, 1913, Watson was elected as a candidate for the Scottish Unionist Party for the first time as a member of the House of Commons and represented in this until December 14, 1918 the constituency of Lanarkshire Southern . After leaving the House of Commons, he was a member of the Defense of the Realm Losses Commission between 1918 and 1920, as well as a Procurator of the Church of Scotland between 1918 and 1922 .

Lord Advocate, Lord Judge and Member of the House of Lords

After serving as Advocate Depute in 1919 before the High Court of Justiciary , the highest criminal court in Scotland, he was Solicitor General for some time in 1922 . He then succeeded Charles Murray from November 1922 to February 1924 for the first time as Lord Advocate Attorney General of Scotland and was also Privy Councilor in 1922 .

In the general election of October 29, 1924 , Watson was re-elected to the House of Commons for the Unionist Party, and represented the Carlisle constituency until April 30, 1929 . During this time he was the successor of Hugh Macmillan between November 1924 and his replacement by Alexander Munro MacRobert in April 1929 again Lord Advocate.

Last Watson was a Letters Patent from 1 May 1929 because of the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a life peer with the title Baron Thankerton , of Thankerton in the County of Lanark to a member of the House of Lords in the nobility called and worked until his Death in 1948 as Lord Judge ( Lord of Appeal in Ordinary ). As such he was before the accession to the throne of Kings Edward VIII and George VI. Member of the Coronation Court of Claims .

Web links

• William Watson at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• Lords of Appeal in Ordinary 1876-2009 in Peerages