Arthur Dewar, Lord Dewar (14 March 1860 – 14 June 1917) was a

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politician and judge who served as a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh South as well as

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and later a

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Life

He was born in

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, the fourth son of

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the distiller and founder of

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. His brothers,

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and

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, ran the family business.Obituary in ''The Times'' He was educated at

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and then at the

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, graduating in 1882. He was admitted to the

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in 1885, and in 1892 was appointed the Advocate-Depute for the Glasgow circuit, a minor governmental post, which he held until 1895 when the Conservative Party came into power. In an 1899 by-election he was elected as the Member of Parliament for Edinburgh South, defeating Major-General A.G. Wauchope, but was defeated himself in the 1900 general election by Sir Andrew Agnew. He stood again in the

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, where he won the seat. He had been made

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in 1904, and served as

from February 1909 – 1910. He was re-elected in the

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, but resigned from the Commons in April that year when he was appointed a

, replacing the deceased

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. He took the judicial title of Lord Dewar, and served in the post until his death. He lived 8 Drumsheugh Gardens in Edinburgh's West End in an impressive Victorian townhouse by the Edinburgh architect

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. He is buried in the 20th century extension to

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, against the northmost wall.

Family

He married Letitia ("Lettie") Dalrymple Bell, daughter of Robert Bell of Clifton Hall, in 1892, with whom he had one son and one daughter.Who Was Who His son, Ian Dalrymple Dewar, was killed during the

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Notes

References

''Burke's Landed Gentry – The Kingdom of Scotland''. 19th Edition, Volume I
* "DEWAR", in * Obituary in ''The Times'', 15 June 1917, p. 3

External links

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