Wilfrid Guild Normand, Baron Normand, (1884 – 5 October 1962), was a Scottish Unionist Party politician and judge. He was a Scottish law officer at various stages between 1929 and 1935, and a member of parliament (MP) from 1931 to 1935. He was Lord President of the Court of Session from 1935 until he became a Law Lord in 1947.

Life

Normand was educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh,

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, Paris University and the University of Edinburgh. He was

admitted as an advocate The Faculty of Advocates is an independent body of lawyers who have been admitted to practise as advocates before the courts of Scotland, especially the Court of Session and the High Court of Justiciary. The Faculty of Advocates is a consti ...

on 18 March 1910, the same day as the David King Murray, who also became Solicitor General and a

Senator of the College of Justice The senators of the College of Justice are judges of the College of Justice, a set of legal institutions involved in the administration of justice in Scotland. There are three types of senator: Lords of Session (judges of the Court of Session); ...

. He served in the

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from 1915 to 1918. He became a

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in 1925. He unsuccessfully contested Edinburgh West at the 1929 general election, but won the seat at the 1931 general election. until his resignation in 1935, causing a by-election which was won by Thomas Cooper. He served briefly as Solicitor General for Scotland in 1929 (from May to June) and from 1931 to 1933, when he was appointed Lord Advocate. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1933. In April 1935, Normand was appointed to the bench as Lord President and Lord Justice General, succeeding Lord Clyde and taking the judicial courtesy title Lord Normand. He was appointed a

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in 1947 and received as a Law lord a life peerage as Baron Normand, of Aberdour in the county of

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, retiring in 1953. He was a Trustee of the

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from 1925 to 1946 and again from 1953, and a Trustee of the British Museum from 1950 to 1953. He is buried with his two wives, Gertrude Lawson (1886–1923), and Marion Cunningham (1880–1972), in the north-west section of the first northern extension to

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in western Edinburgh. The grave lies in the first north extension to its western end.

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* 1884 births 1962 deaths Members of the Faculty of Advocates Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Edinburgh constituencies Unionist Party (Scotland) MPs UK MPs 1931–1935 UK MPs who were granted peerages Royal Engineers officers Lord Advocates Solicitors General for Scotland Scottish King's Counsel Normand Law lords Conservative Party (UK) life peers People educated at Fettes College British Army personnel of World War I 20th-century King's Counsel Lords President of the Court of Session Members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council Lords Justice-General Life peers created by George VI {{Conservative-UK-MP-1880s-stub