Andrew Rutherfurd-Clark

Scottish judge
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroScottish judge
A.K.A.Lord Rutherfurd-Clark
A.K.A.Lord Rutherfurd-Clark
PlacesUnited Kingdom Scotland
wasJudge
Work fieldLaw
Gender
Male
Birth1828
Death26 July 1899 (aged 71 years)
The details

Biography

Andrew Rutherfurd Clark, Lord Rutherfurd-Clark (1828 – 26 July 1899) was a Scottish judge

The second son of Rev. Thomas Clark, Minister of St Andrew's Church, Edinburgh, and Grizel Rutherfurd (daughter of Rev. Dr. Prof. William Greenfield, Clark's predecessor at St Andrews). He married his cousin, the daughter of Major James H. Rutherford.

He was called to the Scottish bar in 1849. He served as sheriff of Inverness from 1860 to 1862, and of Haddington and Berwick from 1862 to 1869, and as Solicitor General for Scotland from 1869 to 1874. He succeeded George Young in all three appointments.

He was Dean of the Faculty of Advocates from 1874 to 1875 and was raised to the bench with the judicial title Lord Rutherfurd Clark. He resigned from the bench in 1896.

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