Sunday, 3 December 2017
1752 James Clyde
Constituency : Edinburgh West 1909-12 ( Liberal Unionist ), 1912-18, Edinburgh North 1918-20 ( Conservative )
James took over after at Edinburgh on the resignation of Lewis McIver. Despite McIver's small majority in 1906 he was unopposed.
James was the son of the Rector of Edinburgh Academy. He was educated there and at the University. He became a Scottish barrister often representing railway companies. He was briefly Solicitor-General for Scotland in 1905 and stood for the Tories in Clackmannanshire in 1906.
James was a frequent contributor to the House on land matters.
James became dean of the Faculty of Advocates in 1915.
James was appointed to the Dardanelles Commission in 1916.
James was Lord Advocate from 1916 to 1920.
In 1920 James became Lord Clyde and Lord Justice General. He made a famous declaration accepting the notion of tax avoidance. He was chair of the Trustees of the National Library of Scotland from 1936 to 1944.
He died in 1944 aged 80.
That concludes our look at the by-election victors of the 1906-10 Parliament.*
* John Hancock was selected by the Liberals for the Mid-Derbyshire by-election in 1909 but the MFGB instruction to take the Labour whip occurred before the poll and Hancock pledged himself to obey it.
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