George Emslie, Baron Emslie

George Carlyle Emslie, Baron Emslie PC QC MBE FRSE (6 December 1919 – 21 November 2002), was a Scottish judge.

Educated at the High School of Glasgow and the University of Glasgow, he was commissioned in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and served in World War II in North Africa, Italy, Greece and Austria, rising to the rank of Brigade Major from 1944 to 1946. He was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1946.^[1]

He became an advocate in 1948 and served as an Advocate Depute from 1955. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1957.^[2]

He was Sheriff of Perth and Angus from 1963^[3] to 1966^[4] and Dean of the Faculty of Advocates from 1965^[4] to 1970. He was appointed a Senator of the College of Justice in 1970 following the death of Lord Guthrie^[5] and was Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General from 1972^[6] to 1989. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1972 and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1987.

He was created a life peer as Baron Emslie, of Potterton in the District of Gordon on 11 February 1980^[7] but didn't take his seat in the House of Lords until 1990.^[8]

References

1. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 37598. p. 2774. 13 June 1946.
2. The Edinburgh Gazette: no. 17527. p. 467. 6 August 1957. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
3. The Edinburgh Gazette: no. 18173. p. 623. 6 September 1963. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
4. The London Gazette: no. 43877. p. 666. 18 January 1966. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
5. The Edinburgh Gazette: no. 18872. p. 359. 18 January 1966. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
6. The Edinburgh Gazette: no. 19080. p. 241. 17 March 1972. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
7. The London Gazette: no. 48097. p. 2373. 14 February 1980.
8. Roth, Andrew (4 December 2002). "Lord Emslie, Obituary". The Guardian (Guardian Media Group). Retrieved 9 December 2009.

External links

• Obituary from The Guardian
• Obituary from The Independent