Wilfrid Normand, Baron Normand
- Wilfrid Normand, Baron Normand
Wilfrid Guild Normand, Baron Normand, KC (1884 – 5 October 1962), was a Scottish politician and judge.
Educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh, Oriel College, Oxford, Paris University and Edinburgh University, he was admitted as an advocate in 1910. He served in the Royal Engineers from 1915 to 1918. He became a King's Counsel in 1925.
He contested Edinburgh West in 1929, and was Unionist Member of Parliament for the seat from 1931 to until his resignation in 1935, causing a by-election which was won by Thomas Cooper. He served as Solicitor General for Scotland in 1929 and from 1931 to 1933, when he was appointed Lord Advocate. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1935
Normand was appointed to the bench as Lord Justice General in 1935. He was appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in 1947 and received as a Law lord a life peerage as Baron Normand, of Aberdour in the County of Fifeshire, retiring in 1953.He was a Trustee of the National Library of Scotland from 1925 to 1946 and again from 1953, and a Trustee of the British Museum from 1950 to 1953.
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