Duncan McNeill, 1st Baron Colonsay FRSE was a Scottish advocate, judge and Tory politician. He was Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session between 1852 and 1867.
Duncan McNeill c. 1844
"Scotch Law" Lord Colonsay as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, September 1873
The grave of Duncan McNeill, Warriston Cemetery, Edinburgh
73 Great King Street, Edinburgh
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His Majesty's Lord Advocate, known as the lord advocate, is the most senior law officer in Scotland, and one of the law officers of the Crown, serving as the principal legal adviser of both the Scotti
Duncan McNeill, 1st Baron Colonsay
…Sheriff of Perthshire in 1824. He served under Sir Robert Peel as Solicitor General for Scotland from 1834 to 1835 and again from 1841 to 1842 and as Lord Advocate from 1842 to 1846. From 1843 to 1851 he sat as Member of Parliament for Argyllshire. In 1851 he was appointed a Senator of the College of Justice and…
Lord Advocate
Sir James Stewart, lord advocate 1692–1707, the last lord advocate of the Kingdom of Scotland prior to the Acts of Union
Alexander MacRobert, Lord Advocate between May–June 1929
Lord Hardie 2010