David King Murray, Lord Birnam

Scots law
Part of a series on

Administration Justice and Communities Directorate of the Scottish Government Cabinet Secretary for Justice Judicial Appointments Board Judicial Complaints Reviewer Legal Aid Board Courts & Tribunals Service College of Justice Office of the Public Guardian Law Commission Criminal Cases Review Commission Prison Service
Civil courts Court of Session Lord President Lord Justice Clerk Lord of Session Office of the Accountant of Court Act of Sederunt Sheriff Court Sheriff Principal Sheriff
Criminal courts High Court of Justiciary Lord Justice-General Lord Justice Clerk Lords Commissioner of Justiciary Sheriff courts Sheriff Principal Sheriffs Justice of the peace courts Justices of the peace Stipendiary magistrates
Special courts Court of the Lord Lyon Lord Lyon King of Arms Children's Reporter Administration Children's Hearings Land Court Lands Tribunal
Criminal prosecution Lord Advocate Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service Advocate Depute Procurator fiscal Fiscal fine Precognition
Legal profession Judiciary Faculty of Advocates Advocate Law Society Solicitor-Advocate Solicitor Association of Commercial Attorneys

Sir Thomas David King Murray KC FRSE (1884 – 5 June 1955) was a Scottish politician and judge.

The son of James Murray, Greenknowe, Bothwell, he was educated at Hamilton Academy, Glasgow High School and Glasgow University.

Called to the Scots Bar in 1910 and fought in World War I as a Lieutenant in the RNVR. He resumed his legal practice and was Junior Counsel to the Treasury in Scotland from 1927 to 1928, Sheriff-Substitute of Lanarkshire at Airdrie from 1928 to 1933, and Senior Advocate Depute from 1936 to 1938. He was appointed a King's Counsel in 1933.^[1]

In May 1938, he appointed a Chairman of the Scottish Land Court, succeeding the late Lord MacGregor Mitchell^[2]^[3] He took the judicial title Lord Murray, and chaired the court until June 1941, when he was joined the wartime coalition government as Solicitor General for Scotland.

(preceding another former pupil of the Hamilton Academy, Robert Gibson, Lord Gibson), and was Chairman of the Scottish Coalfields Committee from 1942 to 1944.

He was Solicitor General for Scotland from 1941 to 1945,^[4] and was elected at a closely fought by-election in 1943 as the Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) for Midlothian and Peebles North. He was knighted in 1941. Murray retired from the House of Commons at the 1945 general election and was appointed a Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland and Lord of Session in 1945, with the judicial title Lord Birnam.

Sources

Who Was Who

References

↑ The Edinburgh Gazette: no. 14992. p. 681. 18 August 1933. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
↑ "Scottish Land Court Chairman". The Times (Issue 47991) (London, England). 11 May 1938. p. 18. Retrieved 18 January 2016 – via The Times Digital Archive. (subscription required (help)).
↑ The Edinburgh Gazette: no. 15491. p. 391. 13 May 1938. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
↑ The Edinburgh Gazette: no. 15820. p. 30. 13 June 1941. Retrieved 8 January 2016.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by John Colville	Member of Parliament for Midlothian and Peebles North 1943–1945	Succeeded by Lord John Hope
Legal offices
Preceded by James Scott Cumberland Reid	Solicitor General for Scotland 1941–1945	Succeeded by Daniel Patterson Blades

Chairs of the Scottish Land Court

1912: Kennedy 1918: St Vigeans 1934: Macgregor Mitchell 1938: Murray 1941: Gibson 1965: Birsay 1978: Elliott 1993: Philip 1996: McGhie 2014: Minginish

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, March 08, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.