Alexander Macdonald "Alistair" Hamilton

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

JP (11 May 1925 – 25 May 2012) was president of the

Law Society of Scotland The Law Society of Scotland is the professional governing body for Scottish solicitors. It promotes excellence among solicitors through the support and regulation of its members. It also promotes the interests of the public in relation to the ...

London Gazette Supplement 30 December 1978 Gazetted CBE’s - Alexander Macdonald Hamilton, past President, The Law Society of Scotland
Retrieved 7 September 2011 and vice-chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland. Born in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland on 11 May 1925, Alexander Macdonald Hamilton was educated at the

Hamilton Academy Hamilton Academy was a school in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The school was described as "one of the finest schools in Scotland" in the Cambridge University Press County Biography of 1910, and was featured in a 1950 Scottish Seconda ...

. From Hamilton Academy, Hamilton graduated MA, and

LLB Bachelor of Laws ( la, Legum Baccalaureus; LL.B.) is an undergraduate law degree in the United Kingdom and most common law jurisdictions. Bachelor of Laws is also the name of the law degree awarded by universities in the People's Republic of Chi ...

from the

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. A senior partner and latterly consultant with the large Glasgow firm of solicitors, McGrigor Donald, Hamilton was also vice-chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group. A member of council and convener of the diligence committee of the

, Hamilton was to become president of the society, 1977–78. He was also a member of the Court House Committee of the

Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow The Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow is a professional body of legal practitioners based in Glasgow and providing services to lawyers in the city and the surrounding area. The Faculty owns and operates the largest law library in the West ...

. Hamilton was appointed JP and, in 1978,

. He was also committed to the Scout movement for most of his life, especially as Scoutmaster of the 150th Glasgow Troop attached to Cambuslang Old Parish Church, where he was an elder for over fifty years. Alistair Hamilton died in 2012.Alistair Hamilton
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Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hamilton, Alistair 1925 births 2012 deaths People educated at Hamilton Academy Alumni of the University of Glasgow Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Scottish solicitors Scottish bankers Scottish justices of the peace 20th-century Scottish businesspeople