John Macdonald, Lord Kingsburgh

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"The Lord Advocate"
Macdonald as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, June 1888
29 Great King Street, Edinburgh
Abercromby Place, Edinburgh

Sir John Hay Athole Macdonald, Lord Kingsburgh,

FRSE (27 December 1836 – 9 May 1919) was a Scottish Conservative Party[1]
politician and later a judge.

Life

Macdonald was born on 28 December 1836 at 29 Great King Street in

University of Basle in Switzerland.[2]

He was called to the

Dean of the Faculty of Advocates from 1882 to 1885.[4] The University of Edinburgh gave him an honorary doctorate (LLD) in 1884. In 1886 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were John MacLaren, Lord MacLaren, Sir William Turner, Peter Guthrie Tait and Alexander Buchan.[2]

Elected as the

Privy Counsellor in 1885. He was created a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) by Queen Victoria
in 1900.

He was commissioned as a

Volunteer movement, author of On the Best Detail Formation for the New Infantry Tactics (1873) and Commonsense on Parade or Drill without Strings (1886). In 1885 he organised a spectacular night assembly of the brigade, which resulted in 500 new recruits. He was later appointed as the brigade's Honorary Colonel, remaining in that role with the 5th (Queen's Edinburgh Rifles) Battalion, Royal Scots, when the Territorial Force was formed in 1908.[5][6][7][8][9]

He gave up his Parliamentary seat and was appointed Lord Justice Clerk in 1888,[1] taking the title Lord Kingsburgh, and presided over the Second Division of the Court of Session until 1915. He was promoted from Ensign to Lieutenant in the Royal Company of Archers on 18 June 1915.[10]

In 1875 he became one of the founding members of the ruling council of the Cockburn Association, Edinburgh's influential conservationist organisation, becoming the body's vice-president in 1887 and then its president in 1914, relinquishing the latter office in 1918.[11]

In the 1916 Birthday Honours King George V created him a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB).[12]

He was an enthusiastic car owner and was a founding member of the

Automobile Club and was the first president of the Scottish Automobile Club. He also registered Edinburgh's first ever number plate.[13]

He died at home, 15 Abercromby Place, a short distance from his birthplace, on 9 May 1919. He is buried in St Cuthbert's Churchyard at the west end of Princes Street.[2]

Family

In 1864 he married Adelaide Jeanette Doran. She died in 1870.

Publications

  • Practical Treatise on the Criminal Law of Scotland (1887)

References and notes

  1. ^
    ISBN 0-900178-27-2
    .
  2. ^
    ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  3. ^ "No. 24232". The London Gazette. 30 July 1875. p. 2817.
  4. ^ "Biographies of Candidates: Scotland". The Times. London. 30 June 1886. p. 8. Retrieved 8 June 2016 – via The Times Digital Archive.
  5. ^ Army List.
  6. ISBN 0 85936 271 X
    , p. 198; Appendix VI.
  7. ^ Maj-Gen J.M. Grierson, Records of the Scottish Volunteer Force 1859–1908, Edinburgh:Blackwood, 1909, pp. 177–84.
  8. ISBN 978-1-84884-211-3
    , pp. 78–81.
  9. ^ Edinburgh Gazette Issue 27320 published on 4 June 1901. Page 7 of 68[permanent dead link]
  10. ^ London Gazette 12821 published on 22 June 1915. Page 6 of 12[permanent dead link]
  11. ^ "Historic Cockburn Association Office-Bearers".
  12. ^ "No. 29608". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 June 1916. p. 5553.
  13. ^ "Historic car reg fetches £400,000". 19 September 2008. Retrieved 5 May 2019.

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