Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie
Charles John Guthrie, Lord Guthrie
Life
Guthrie was born at 2 Lauriston Lane in Edinburgh,[2] the son of Rev Thomas Guthrie,[1] a major figure in Scottish church history. By 1860 the family had moved to 1 Salisbury Road, a large villa in south Edinburgh.[3]
He was educated at
In 1907, he was appointed a Senator of the College of Justice. Lord Guthrie was a member of the Royal Commissions on Historical Monuments in Scotland (1908) and on Divorce and Matrimonial Causes (1909), and was Chairman of the Houseletting Commission (1906–07).[1] In 1909, he presided over the trial of Oscar Slater. Guthrie made prejudicial and pejorative comments during his summing up, leading to Scotland’s worst ever miscarriage of justice. Slater was released and pardoned 20 years later.
When he was young, Guthrie had been a friend of
In 1916 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were John Horne, Sir William Turner, Sir John Macdonald, Lord Kingsburgh, and John George Bartholomew.[6]
Lord Guthrie died at his home, 13 Royal Circus in Edinburgh,[7] on 28 April 1920. He is buried in the north-west corner of the north section of Dean Cemetery.
Family
In 1876 Guthrie married his cousin, Anne Jemima Burns (1845-1927), the daughter of Rev Dr James Chalmers Burns[8] DD of Kirkliston, and they had two sons and three daughters to the marriage.[9]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 31 (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. pp. 330–331.
- ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1849
- ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1860
- ^ "No. 10915". The Edinburgh Gazette. 3 September 1897. p. 849.
- ^ "No. 27991". The London Gazette. 1 February 1907. p. 737.
- ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original(PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
- ^ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1911-12
- ^ https://archive.org/stream/fastiecclesiaesc00scot/fastiecclesiaesc00scot_djvu.txt [bare URL plain text file]
- ^ "Death of Lord Guthrie Scottish Judge And Friend of R. L. Stevenson". The Times. Vol. Issue 42397. London. 29 April 1920. p. 18; col F.
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- Guthrie, Charles John Guthrie, Lord (1902). Genealogy of the descendants of Rev. Thomas Guthrie, D.D., and Mrs. Anne Burns or Guthrie : connected chiefly with the families of Chalmers and Trail, to which Mrs. Guthrie belonged, through her mother, Mrs. Christiana Chalmers or Burns, and her great-grandmother, Mrs. Susannah Trail or Chalmers : also incidental references to the families of Guthrie and Burns: comp. from family records, letters, diaries / by Charles John Guthrie. Edinburgh: A. Elliott.
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