Robert Munro, 1st Baron Alness
- Robert Munro, 1st Baron Alness
Robert Munro, 1st Baron Alness, GBE, PC, KC, (May 28, 1868 – October 6, 1955) was a Scottish Liberal politician and judge.
He was born in Alness Parish Manse and was educated privately at Aberdeen Grammar School and then Edinburgh University.
He was admitted to the Scots Bar as an Advocate in 1893, and took silk in 1910. He was Counsel to the Board of Inland Revenue.
At the January 1910 general election he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Wick Burghs, holding the seat until its abolition for the 1918 election. He was then returned to the House of Commons as MP for the new Roxburgh and Selkirk constituency, holding the seat until 1922.
He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1913 and held the offices of Lord Advocate from 1913 to 1916, and Secretary for Scotland from 1916 to 1922. He was appointed to the bench as Lord Justice Clerk and President of Second Division of the Court of Session in 1922, taking the judicial title Lord Alness. He held the office of Honourable Bencher, Lincoln's Inn in 1924.
Following his retirement from the bench in 1933, he was created Baron Alness on June 27, 1934. He was Lord-in-Waiting to King George VI in 1945 and was invested as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in 1947. The barony became extinct on his death.
He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant of Edinburgh.
References
* Torrance, David, "The Scottish Secretaries" (Birlinn 2006)
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