Ian Fraser, Baron Fraser of Tullybelton

Walter Ian Reid Fraser, Baron Fraser of Tullybelton ( born February 3, 1911 in Glasgow, † 17 February 1989) was a British judge.

Life and career

Ian Fraser was born on February 3, 1911 as the only child of Alexander Reid Fraser and his wife Margaret Russell MacFarlane. He attended Repton School and later studied at Balliol College, Oxford, philosophy, politics and economics, that he was one of the year's best ( first- class honors ) left in 1932. He finished his studies at the University of Glasgow with a Bachelor of Laws in 1935. The following year he was admitted to the Scottish Faculty of Advocates, where he soon earned a reputation as an excellent lawyer. Besides the practical he practiced at the same time from a teaching position at the University of Glasgow and from 1948 at the University of Edinburgh. His published in 1936 (2nd edition 1948) work Outline of Constitutional Law was soon regarded as a standard work on British constitutional law.

During the war he initially served as a sergeant in an anti-aircraft battery of the Territorial Army. Later he transferred to the Royal Artillery, was promoted to the rank of major and served in the theater of war in Burma. In 1945 he was appointed Advocate Depute and eventually rose to the Home Depute at Crown Office. In 1953 he was appointed to the Queen's Counsel. In 1954, he belonged to the Scottish Law to Reform Committee and from 1960 to 1962 the Royal Commission on the Police. From 1959 to 1964 he served as Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, 1964-1974, he was Senator of the College of Justice and carried at the same time the judicial title of Lord Fraser. In 1974 he was appointed to the Privy Council, the Life peer with the title Baron Fraser of Tullybelton, of Bankfoot in the County of Perth appointed and took over the office of Lord of Appeal in Ordninary. Ian Fraser was a very active member of the House of Lords and dealt mainly with questions concerning the development of the administration of justice. Even in his retirement he was a member as chairman of the University Commission on the reform of higher education. He died on February 17, 1989 in a car accident on the M90 between Perth and Edinburgh during a snow storm.

Awards

Fraser was a member of the Royal Company of Archers. In 1975 he was appointed honorary chairman of the governing body of Gray 's Inn, in 1981 an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College. An honorary doctorate ( Legum Doctor) he he held at the University of Glasgow in 1970 and at the University of Edinburgh in 1978.

Family

On November 8, 1943 Ian Fraser married Mary Ursula Cynthia Gwendolen Macdonnell, daughter of Colonel Ian Harrison Macdonnell, with whom he had a son named Andrew.