James Avon Clyde, Lord Clyde

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For other people named James Clyde, see James Clyde (disambiguation).
The Right Honourable
The Lord Clyde
KC DL
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Lord Justice General
In office
1 April 1920 – 1 April 1935
Preceded by The Lord Strathclyde
Succeeded by The Lord Normand
Lord Advocate
In office
December 1916 – January 1920
Preceded by Robert Munro
Succeeded by Thomas Morison
Solicitor General for Scotland
In office
October 1905 – December 1905
Preceded by Edward Theodore Salvesen
Succeeded by Alexander Ure
Parliamentary Representation
Member of Parliament
for Edinburgh North
In office
14 December 1918 – 25 March 1920
Preceded by Constituency created
Succeeded by Patrick Ford
Member of Parliament
for Edinburgh West
In office
17 May 1909 – 25 November 1918
Preceded by Lewis McIver
Succeeded by John Gordon Jameson
Personal details
Born (1863-11-14)14 November 1863
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Edinburgh, Scotland

James Avon Clyde, Lord Clyde, KC, DL, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , (14 November 1863 – 16 June 1944) was a Scottish politician and judge.

Early life

Clyde was born on 14 November 1863, the son of Dr James Clyde LLD (1821-1912).[1] His father was a teacher at Dollar Academy and then at Edinburgh Academy.[2]

He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated with an MA 1884 and an LLB in 1888.[1]

Career

Clyde was called to the Scots Bar in 1889,[1] and by the times he was appointed a King's Counsel (KC) in August 1901,[3] he was the leading junior counsel in Scotland.[2] As a KC, he was retained by several railway companies and frequently appeared before the Law Lords.[2]

He was later Dean of the Faculty of Advocates from 1915 to 1918.[1]

He held office briefly as Solicitor General for Scotland from October 1905[4] to December 1905.[1]

He was the unsuccessful Tory candidate for Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire in 1906.[5] He was elected at a by-election in May 1909 as the Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh West, and held the seat until 1918.[6] He was Coalition Unionist member for Edinburgh North from 1918 to 1920.[2]

He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in December 1916.[7] He was also appointed to the Dardanelles Commission. He served as Lord Advocate from December 1916[8] to 1920 in Lloyd George's coalition government. He was appointed to the bench and served as Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session from 1920[9] to 1935, with the judicial title Lord Clyde. During this time Lord Clyde gave this famous quote (in taxation circles) in the case of Ayrshire Pullman Motor Services v Inland Revenue [1929] 14 Tax Case 754, at 763,764:[10]

"No man in the country is under the smallest obligation, moral or other, so to arrange his legal relations to his business or property as to enable the Inland Revenue to put the largest possible shovel in his stores. The Inland Revenue is not slow, and quite rightly, to take every advantage which is open to it under the Taxing Statutes for the purposes of depleting the taxpayer's pocket. And the taxpayer is in like manner entitled to be astute to prevent, so far as he honestly can, the depletion of his means by the Inland Revenue."[11]

He was a Deputy Lieutenant of Kinross-shire,[1] and later became Lord Lieutenant of Kinross-shire from 1937 until his death. He was Chairman of the Trustees of the National Library of Scotland from 1936 to 1944.[2]

Personal life

In 1895 Clyde married Anna Margaret MacDiarmid.[1] They had two sons; the older, James Latham Clyde, later also became Lord Advocate and Lord Justice General.

Clyde died in Edinburgh on 16 June 1944.[2]

References

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  3. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 27346. p. . 16 August 1901.
  4. ↑ The Edinburgh Gazette: no. 11770. p. . 20 October 1905.
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  6. ↑ Craig, British parliamentary election results 1885–1918, page 500
  7. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 29875. p. . 22 December 1916.
  8. ↑ The Edinburgh Gazette: no. 13026. p. . 15 December 1916.
  9. ↑ The Edinburgh Gazette: no. 13588. p. . 20 April 1920.
  10. ↑ Martin Hagen, Tax Evasion or Legitimate... Accountancy Magazine November 2009
  11. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

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Legal offices
Preceded by Solicitor General for Scotland
1905		 Succeeded by
Alexander Ure
Preceded by Lord Advocate
1916–1920		 Succeeded by
Thomas Brash Morison
Preceded by Lord Justice General
1920–1935		 Succeeded by
Lord Normand
Honorary titles
Preceded by Lord Lieutenant of Kinross-shire
1937–1944		 Succeeded by
Henry Keith Purvis-Russell-Montgomery
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Edinburgh West
1909–1918		 Succeeded by
John Gordon Jameson
New constituency Member of Parliament for Edinburgh North
1918–1920		 Succeeded by
Patrick Ford
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