William Watson, Baron Watson

William Watson, Baron Watson of Thankerton in the County of Lanark PC ( * August 25, 1827 (according to other sources: 1828) in Covington, Lanarkshire, † September 14, 1899 ) was a Scottish- British politician of the Conservative Party and a lawyer, the number of 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 and member of the House of Lords was.

Life

Watson, son of a clergyman, graduated after school to study law at the University of Glasgow and the University of Edinburgh in 1851 and received his legal approval to the Scottish Bar Association ( Scots Bar ). He then took a job as a lawyer ( Advocate), and was 1874-1876 Solicitor General of Scotland, and at the same time from 1875 to 1876 head of the Scottish legal profession ( Dean of Faculty of Advocates ).

On November 14, 1876 Watson was elected as a candidate of the Conservative Party for Members in the House of Commons and represented in this until March 31, 1880 the constituency of Aberdeen and Glasgow Universities. At the same time, he was from 1876 to 1880 as Lord Advocate Attorney General of Scotland, and was also in 1878 Privy Councillor. As a parliamentarian and as Lord Advocate, he came successor of Edward Gordon.

Last Watson was appointed in 1876 as a life peer with the title Baron Watson, of Thankerton in the County of Lanark member of the House of Lords to the peerage by letters patent dated April 28, 1880 due to the Appellate Jurisdiction Act and worked until his death 1899 as Lord Justice (Lord of Appeal in Ordinary).

His son, William Watson, Baron Thankerton was also lower house MP, Solicitor General and Lord Advocate of Scotland, and most recently Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.