James Keith, Baron Keith of Avonholm
James Keith, Baron Keith of Avonholm, of St Bernard's in the City of Edinburgh PC KC ( * May 20, 1886, † June 29, 1964 ) was a British lawyer who most recently as Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a life peer and member of the House of Lords was.
Life
Keith, whose father Henry Shanks Keith was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire and served as Provost top municipal official from Hamilton later 1901-1908 and again in 1919, graduated after attending the prestigious Hamilton Academy to study law and received in 1911 his legal approval from the bar Association of Scotland ( Scots bar ). He then took up a career as a lawyer ( Advocate) and was (King 's Counsel ) appointed for his lawyer's achievements in 1926 Attorney-General. In addition to his legal practice, he was 1925-1936 Trustee of the National Library of Scotland, and from 1936 to 1937 head of the Scottish legal profession ( Dean of Faculty of Advocates ).
1937 Keith joined in the judicial service and worked until 1953 as a judge at the High Court in Scotland, the Court of Session, and was thus at the same time Senator of the College of Justice, which consists of the three supreme courts of Scotland. In addition to his activities, he was judge from 1942 to 1954 as President of the Council of the National Parks of Scotland and between 1942 and 1945 as chairman of the Youth Advisory Committee at Scotland minister ( Secretary of State for Scotland). He was also from 1943 to 1950 Chairman of the Scottish Council for Probation (Scottish Probation Council ), 1948 President of the Association of Youth Hostels in Scotland ( Scottish Youth Hostels Association ) and in 1951 a member of the Royal Commission on Marriage and Divorce ( Royal Commission on Marriage and Divorce ).
Recently Keith was appointed by Letters Patent of November 4, 1953 due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a Life peer with the title Baron Keith of Avonholm, of St Bernard's in the City of Edinburgh to the member of the House of Lords to the nobility and worked until his death as Lord Justice (Lord of Appeal in Ordinary). In addition, he was appointed in 1953 to the Privy Councillor.
His son Henry Keith was also a lawyer and a judge at the Court of Session, and was last updated in 1977 as a life peer with the title Baron Keith of Kinkel, of Strathummel in the District of Perth and Kinross also Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.