 | Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1807 - 464 pages
...a few years afterwards, to the office of Justice-Clerk, or President of the Court of Justiciary *. In all these departments, he discharged his duty with...dialect which was purer than that •-..:• ..... . of * The Lord Justice-General is, strictly speaking, the President of the High Court of Justiciary ; but,... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - Judges - 1814 - 482 pages
...Court is exercised by |he Lord Justice-Clerk, duty with honour and integrity. As a law- cHAP- "• yei, he was esteemed an able civilian : he spoke with ease...a dialect which was purer than that of most of his cotemporaries : As a Judge, his demeanour was grave and decorous, and accompanied with a gentleness... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Law - 1888 - 516 pages
...post to the satisfaction of the country, in April, 1763 1.' 'As a lawyer,' says Mr. Fraser Tytler 2, ' he was esteemed an able civilian. He spoke with ease...suavity of manners that were extremely ingratiating.' 1 The Lord Advocates of Scotland, vol. ii. p. I et eeq. 2 Life of Lord Kames, p. 38. 2. WILLIAM KIRKPATUICK,... | |
 | Law - 1888 - 684 pages
...to the satisfaction of the country, in April 1763."* " As a lawyer," says Mr. Fraser Tytler, 2 " lie was esteemed an able civilian. He spoke with ease...suavity of manners that were extremely ingratiating." 2. William Kirkpatrick, 1734-35. Areskine was succeeded by his son-in-law, William Kirkpatrick, third... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Great Britain - 1889 - 564 pages
...15 June 1748, and died at Edinburgh on 5 April 1763, aged 83. Tytler says that as a lawyer Erskine ' was esteemed an able civilian ; he spoke with ease...suavity of manners that were extremely ingratiating ' (i. 55). While in the House of Commons he seems to have j spoken but rarely, and his name only occurs... | |
 | Dugald Butler - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1906 - 448 pages
...the same time succeeding him as a Lord of Justiciary. In 1748 he was appointed Lord Justice-Clerk. " In all these departments he discharged his duty with...and in a dialect which was purer than that of most 22. Mrs. Plummer ..... ^14 oo 23. John Kennedy, Surgeon . . . . 14 oo 24< Sir John Inglis1 . . . .... | |
 | John Porteous, William Roughead - Porteous Riots, 1736 - 1909 - 428 pages
...resignation of Andrew Fletcher of Milton (gv), he was appointed Lord Justice-Clerk on 15th June, 1748. "In all these departments he discharged his duty with...suavity of manners that were extremely ingratiating " (Tytler's Memoirs of Lord Kamts (1814), i. 53-5). He died at Edinburgh on 5th April, 1763. " If he... | |
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In all these departments, he discharged his duty with honour and integrity. As a lawyer, he was esteemed an able civilian, he spoke with ease and gracefulness, and in a dialect which was purer than that of most of his contemporaries. As a judge, his demeanour... 