Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan
Hugh Pattison ( Pattinson) Macmillan, Baron Macmillan of Aberfeldy in the County of Perthshire GCVO PC KC ( * February 20, 1873; † September 5, 1952 ) was a British lawyer who most recently as Lord of Appeal in Ordinary because of Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a life peer and member of the House of Lords was.
Life
Lawyer and Lord Advocate
After visiting the Collegiate School in Greenock Macmillan first completed a study of philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Philosophy). A subsequent study of law at the University of Glasgow, he finished with a Bachelor of Laws ( LL.B. ) and in 1897 was awarded 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 a lawyer's services in 1912 for Attorney-General.
In February 1924 Macmillan ( Attorney General ) was Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald as the successor to William Watson to the Lord Advocate appointed by Scotland and has held this post until his own replacement by Watson in November 1924. At the same time he was appointed in 1924 to the Privy Councillor and took after finishing the term as Lord Advocate his legal work on.
After Black Thursday 24 October 1929 and the resulting Great Depression, he was until 1931 chairman of the eponymous Macmillan Committee, an advisory body to the government for economic and industrial issues, inter alia, Ernest Bevin, John Bradbury, 1st Baron Bradbury, John Maynard Keynes and Reginald McKenna belonged as members. In addition, he served 1929-1943 as Chairman of the Council of the University of London.
Lord Justice, House of Lords Member and Minister of Information
By Letters Patent of February 3, 1930 Russell was due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act appointed in 1876 as a life peer with the title Baron Macmillan of Aberfeldy in the County of Perthshire member of the House of Lords to the peerage, and initially worked until 1939 as Lord Justice (Lord of Appeal in Ordinary). He was one of the few law lords who had previously exercised no judicial office, but were appointed directly from the legal profession out of Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.
In 1933 he was appointed Chairman of the named also after him Macmillan Commission, which advised the Government of Canada under the official name Royal Commission on Banking and Currency in matters of monetary policy. The Commission included not only politicians such as former Canadian finance minister William Thomas White and the then Premier of Alberta John Edward Brownlee also well-known database manager. Furthermore, he was 1935-1952 Chairman of the charity fund Pilgrims Trust and 1936-1946 Chairman of the Advisory Board of the BBC. For his merits him the Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order in 1937 was awarded.
On 5 September 1939, he resigned his judgeship after he had been appointed by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to the Minister of Information. This ministerial post he held until his replacement by John Reith, the first Director General of the BBC many years, on 5 January 1940.
Last Lord Macmillan was re-appointed on 18 July 1941, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and exercised the office this time until his resignation on January 6, 1947.
Publications
- A Man of Law 's Tale, autobiography, 1952