The Hon. John Trayner, Lord Trayner LLD (19 April 1834 – 3 February 1929) was a Scottish lawyer who rose to be a Senator of the College of Justice.

Life

The Salvesen-Trayner monument, Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh

He was born in

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on 19 April 1834, the son of Agnes (1796–1874) and Hugh Trayner (1798–1861). He studied law first at the

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and then at

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In February 1885, he was elected a Senator of the College of Justice. In 1886, he was awarded an honorary doctorate (LLD) by the University of Glasgow. At this time he was living at 27 Moray Place in Edinburgh's West End. In the 1901, census he was living at The Grange in

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and was being visited by his friend and colleague Sir John Cheyne and his wife Lady Cheyne. He died at Dean House in

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on 3 February 1929 and is buried in Dean Cemetery. He shares the grave of his son-in-law, Edward Theodore Salvesen, in the new Lords Row against the north wall of the 20th century extension to the cemetery, backing onto Queensferry Road. The memorial was designed by

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Family

He was married to Frances Elizabeth Wyld (1839–1908), daughter of Robert Stodart Wyld WS. Their daughter Isabell Georgine Maxwell Trayner (1865–1939) married

Edward Theodore Salvesen The Hon. Edward Theodore Salvesen, Lord Salvesen (20 July 1857 – 23 February 1942) was a Scottish lawyer, politician and judge who rose to be a Senator of the College of Justice. Life Edward Theodore Salvesen was the son of Christian Frede ...

, Lord Salvesen. Their son Charles Hugh Maxwell Trayner (1867–1908) travelled widely and married Emmeline Tornquist of

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and died in Spain. Their son Robert (Bertie) Wyld Maxwell Trayner (1870-1958) married Adelaide Wilhelmina Roddy in

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, and their daughter Frances Agnes Mary Camille Trayner (1878–1952) did not marry.

Publications

*''Latin Phrases and Maxims'' (1861)

Artistic Recognition

His portrait by George Reid RSA is held by the

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References

1834 births 1929 deaths Lawyers from Glasgow Senators of the College of Justice Burials at the Dean Cemetery {{Scotland-law-bio-stub