James Clyde, Baron Clyde
James John Clyde, Baron Clyde,
PC (29 January 1932 – 6 March 2009) was a Scottish
judge.
Biography
James John Clyde was born in Edinburgh on 29 January 1932 the only son and youngest child of Margaret Letitia (1901–1974), (daughter of Arthur Edmund DuBuisson), and
James Latham McDiarmid Clyde, (later Lord Clyde (1898–1975).[1] He is grandson of James Avon Clyde, Lord Clyde
.
He attended
Literae Humaniores from Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and from the University of Edinburgh, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws
in 1959.
Clyde served in the
judicial courtesy title of Lord Clyde), and in 1996 he was elected Honorary Master of the Bench of the Middle Temple. From 2003 to 2006, he was a member of the Justice Oversight Commission
(Northern Ireland).
Clyde was Director of Edinburgh Academy from 1979 to 1988 and vice-president of the
Orkney child abuse inquiry.[1]
Clyde received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1991[2]
On 1 October 1996, he was appointed
Privy Counsellor
. He retired as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in 2001.
Lord Clyde married Ann Clunie Hoblyn in 1963; they had two sons. Lady Clyde died in 2020.[4]
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References
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University
- ^ "Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh: Honorary Graduates". www1.hw.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 18 April 2016. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
- ^ "No. 54543". The London Gazette. 4 October 1996. p. 13211.
- ^ "Clyde - Deaths Announcements". The Telegraph.
- ^ "Clyde, Baron (UK, 1996 - 2009)". www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk.
- "DodOnline". Archived from the original on 10 October 2006. Retrieved 21 November 2006.
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