Alexander Ure, 1st Baron Strathclyde

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Alexander Ure
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Ure's huge Georgian townhouse at 31 Heriot Row, Edinburgh

Alexander Ure, 1st Baron Strathclyde GBE PC QC (22 February 1853 – 2 October 1928) was a Scottish politician, judge, and georgist land value tax activist.[1]

Career overview

Educated at the University of Glasgow he was admitted to membership of the Faculty of Advocates in 1878.

He was Liberal Member of Parliament for Linlithgowshire from 1895 to 1913. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1897.[2]

He served as Solicitor General for Scotland from December 1905[3] to 1909, and as Lord Advocate from February 1909[4] to 1913. He was an enthusiastic supporter of Lloyd George's 1909–10 budget. He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1909.[5] In 1909, he conducted the prosecution of Oscar Slater for murder; the conviction was later quashed on appeal.

He lived in a huge Georgian townhouse, 31 Heriot Row, in Edinburgh's Second New Town.[6]

On leaving Parliament he was raised to the bench as Lord Strathclyde and appointed Lord Justice General, a post he held until 1920. He was raised to the Peerage as Baron Strathclyde, of Sandyford in the County of Lanark, in 1914. In 1917, he was appointed to the Order of the British Empire as a Knight Grand Cross.[7] He is said to have been skilled in cross-examination, and was more suited to life as an advocate than as a judge.

The peerage became extinct on his death.

Styles of address

  • 1853-1895: Mr Alexander Ure
  • 1895-1897: Mr Alexander Ure MP
  • 1897-1909: Mr Alexander Ure QC MP
  • 1909-1913: The Right Honourable Alexander Ure QC MP
  • 1913-1914: The Right Honourable Alexander Ure QC
  • 1914-1917: The Right Honourable The Lord Strathclyde PC QC
  • 1917-1928: The Right Honourable The Lord Strathclyde GBE PC QC

References

  1. ↑ http://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/the-land-song/ GOD GAVE THE LAND TO THE PEOPLE: THE LIBERAL ‘LAND SONG’
  2. ↑ The Edinburgh Gazette: no. 10915. p. 849. 3 September 1897. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
  3. ↑ The Edinburgh Gazette: no. 11787. p. 1313. 19 December 1905. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
  4. ↑ The Edinburgh Gazette: no. 12118. p. 173. 19 February 1909. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1905-6
  7. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

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Preceded by Member of Parliament for Linlithgowshire
1895–1913		 Succeeded by
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Preceded by Solicitor General for Scotland
1905–1909		 Succeeded by
Arthur Dewar
Preceded by Lord Advocate
1909–1913		 Succeeded by
Robert Munro
Preceded by Lord Justice General
1913–1920		 Succeeded by
James Avon Clyde
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baron Strathclyde
1st creation
1914–1928		 Extinct


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