Wilfrid Normand, Baron Normand
Wilfrid Guild Normand, Baron Normand of Aberdour in the County of Fife PC KC ( * May 6, 1884; † October 5, 1962 ) was a Scottish- British politician and the Conservative Party lawyer, who for several years a deputy in the House of Commons and most recently as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, due to the Appellate jurisdiction Act 1876 as a Life peer was also a member of the House of Lords.
Life
Lawyer, Member of the House of Commons and Lord Advocate
After visiting the Fettes College in Edinburgh Normand graduated in law at Oriel College, University of Oxford, the University of Paris and the University of Edinburgh in 1910 and received his legal approval to the Scottish Bar Association ( Scots Bar ). He then took a job as a lawyer ( Advocate), and served during the First World War 1915-1918 in the Royal Engineers. He then worked as a lawyer again and was (King 's Counsel ) appointed for his lawyer's achievements in 1925 Attorney-General.
In the general election of 30 May 1929, he ran for the Tories in the constituency of Edinburgh West without success for a parliamentary seat in 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 then for the Conservative Party ( Unionist ) in the constituency of Edinburgh West elected to the lower house and belonged to this until his resignation in 1935.
During this time he was 1931-1933 again first Solicitor General of Scotland, before he became the successor of 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 Privy Councillor 1933, and was also ex officio 1933-1935 Member of the Committee on the Baronets of the Privy Council. In 1934 he was also the so-called "Honorary Bencher " of the Bar Association ( Inns of Court ) appointed by the Middle Temple.
Lord Justice General, Lord Justice and the House of Lords member
In April 1935 Normand successor of James Avon Clyde, Lord Clyde was as President of the High Court of Scotland ( Lord President of the Court of Session ) and was recognized as such at the same time Lord Justice General and thus president of the Supreme Criminal Court ( High Court of Justiciary ). These offices he held until 1947 and afterwards by Thomas Cooper, 1st Baron Cooper of Culross was replaced.
Most recently, Normand, who was since 1942 a member of the Permanent Commission for Museums and Galleries (later Museum, Libraries and Archives Council), by Letters Patent dated January 6, 1947, pursuant to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a life peer with the title Baron appointed Normand of Aberdour in the County of Fife, a member of the House of Lords to the nobility and worked until his resignation on 6 October 1953 as Lord Justice (Lord of Appeal in Ordinary).
Following Lord Normand was 1954-1955 President of the International Law Association, and from 1954 until his death in 1962, a Trustee of the British Museum and also at the same time 1954-1962 Chairman of the Trustees ( Chairman of Trustees ) of the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland.
Publications
- Scottish judicature and legal procedure, 1941