Sir John Cheyne of Tangwick
KC LLD (1841–1907) was a 19th/20th century Scottish judge.
Life
He was born on 15 February 1841 at 5 Walker Street in
Edinburgh
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's West End the son of Henry Walker
WS. He was christened at
Northmavine
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parish church in
Shetland
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The islands lie about to the no ...
near his father's home estate of Tangwick Haa which was built by his family around 1690.
By 1851 the family was living at 6 Royal Terrace on
Calton Hill
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.
He was sent to
Trinity College, Oxford
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to study Law, graduating MA. He passed the Scottish bar as an
Advocate
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in May 1865. He mainly practiced in
Dundee
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. In the 1880s he was living at 7 Airlie Place in Dundee. Airlie Place is a handsome mid-19th century townhouse forming part of a terrace stepping down towards the River Tay. He was at this stage also Sheriff Substitute for
Forfarshire.
From 1891 he was also
Procurator to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and Vice Dean of the
Faculty of Advocates
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.
He became
Sheriff of Ross, Cromarty and Sutherland
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Original known as the office of the Sheriff of ...
in 1886, transferring to be
Sheriff of Renfrew and Bute
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in 1889, serving until his death.
He was knighted by
Queen Victoria
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at
Balmoral Castle
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The estate and its original castle were bought ...
in 1897.
He lived his final years at 13 Chester Street in Edinburgh's West End. He was a member of the
Kirk Session
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under
Rev Archibald Scott at St George's Church on
Charlotte Square
300px, Robert Adam's palace-fronted north side
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.
He died on 15 January 1907. He is buried in
Warriston Cemetery
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. His simple marble cross stands on the north side of the main central east-west path. The Tangwick estate in Shetland (in which he showed little interest) passed to his younger brother Harry Cheyne.
Family
Cheyne married twice: firstly in 1871 to Margaret Simson (1846-1872) who died soon after childbirth, who lived initially with the whole Cheyne family at 12 Albany Street; secondly in 1875 at
Inchture to Mary Isabella Edward (born 1847 in Dundee; died 1931).
[The Cheyne Family of Scotland, A Y Cheyne]
He had one daughter by the first marriage and two by the second.
References
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1841 births
1907 deaths
Lawyers from Edinburgh
Alumni of the University of Oxford
19th-century Scottish judges
20th-century Scottish judges
People from Shetland