James Clyde, Baron Clyde

James John Clyde, Baron Clyde, of Briglands in Perthshire and Kinross PC, QC ( born January 29, 1932 † March 6, 2009 in Edinburgh ) was a senior British judge and a formal member of the British Parliament.

Life and career

The son of James Latham Clyde, Lord Clyde attended the Edinburgh Academy in Edinburgh and the Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, Oxford, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1954. Subsequently, he served 1954-1956 when intelligence corps ( Intelligence Corps ) of the British Army, and finally promoted to captain. Later he studied at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated in 1959 and his Bachelor of Law received. In the same year he was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates and practiced as a lawyer.

Due to its legal merits, he was appointed in 1971 to the Attorney-General (Queen 's Counsel ) in Scotland, and was 1972-1985 Chancellor to the Bishop of Argyll, Colin Aloysius MacPherson. During this time, he was from 1973 to 1974 as Advocate Depute also Prosecution for the Scottish prosecutor ( Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service ) and then 1974-1985 Chairman of the Court for medical appeal ( Medical Appeal Tribunal ). Clyde, who was from 1977 to 1994 Trustee of the National Library of Scotland, appeared between 1979 and 1985 as a judge of the Court of Appeal ( Court of Appeal ) for Jersey and Guernsey.

Then in 1985 he was judge (Lord of Session ) at the Court of Session, the supreme civil court of Scotland, and worked there until 1996. In addition, he was Vice President since 1987 of the Royal Blind School, and from 1989 to 1993 Member of the Board of Edinburgh Napier University and at the same time between 1989 and 1997 Assessor of the Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh.

Last Clyde was appointed by Letters Patent dated 9 June 1996 under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 as a Life peer with the title Baron Clyde, of Briglands in Perthshire and Kinross member of the House of Lords to the nobility and worked until 2001 as Lord Justice ( Lord of Appeal in Ordinary). He was also from 1997 to 1999 Chairman of the Special Board of St Mary's Hospital, London

He was married in 1963 and had two sons.