William Ellis Gloag, Lord Kincairney (7 February 1828 – 8 October 1909) was a Scottish judge.

Life

Gloag was born in

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on 7 February 1828 to Jessie (née Burn), daughter of John Burn,

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, and William Gloag, a banker in Perth.

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the theologian writer and

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in 1889, was his eldest brother, and his eldest sister was Jessie Burn Gloag, who founded a

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in Perth. Gloat was educated at

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and the

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. He passed the Scottish bar on 25 December 1853, where he enjoyed a fair practice. A Conservative in politics, he was not offered promotion until 1874, when he was appointed

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on the formation of

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. In 1877, Gloag became Sheriff of Stirling and Dumbarton, and in 1885 Sheriff of Perthshire. In 1889, he was raised to the bench, when he took the title of Lord Kincairney. In later life he owned a large Georgian townhouse at 6 Heriot Row, Edinburgh which had previously been the home of the author

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. He died at Kincairney on 8 October 1909, and was buried at Caputh. He is also memorialised on his brother Paton's grave in Dunning.

Family

In 1864, Gloag married Helen, daughter of James Burn, Writer to the Signet. Together they had three daughters and a son, William Murray Gloag.

Works

*''Introduction to the Law of Scotland'', Green, 1995

Notes

Attribution *

Sources

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gloag, William Ellis 1828 births 1909 deaths Members of the Faculty of Advocates Kincairney People from Perth, Scotland Scottish sheriffs Alumni of the University of Edinburgh 19th-century Scottish judges