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| Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron Macmillan, GCVO, PC, FRSE (20 February 1873 – 5 September 1952) was a Scottish advocate, judge, parliamentarian and civil servant. |
| He was born in Glasgow, the son of the Rev Hugh Macmillan DD FRSE (1833-1903) and Jane Patison (1833-1922). His father was minister of St Peter''''s Free Church in Glasgow. The family moved to 70 Union Street in Greenock in 1878. |
| Hugh was educated at Collegiate School, Greenock from 1878, then studied at the University of Edinburgh (M.A. 1st class honours in philosophy, 1893 Bruce of Grangehill and Falkland Scholarship) and the University of Glasgow (LLB). He was indentured for three years to the firm Cowan, Fraser and Clapperton while he studied the Law, in which he distinguished himself by winning the Cunningham Scholarship for Conveyancing in the year 1896. He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1897 with a public defence of an assigned Thesis De diversis regulis juris antiqui, and later became King''''s Counsel in 1912. For a time he wrote articles on conveyancing for Green''''s Encyclopedia of Scots Law, and was Editor of the quarterly Juridical Review between 1900 and 1907. |
| During the First World War Macmillan served as Assistant Director of Intelligence for the Ministry of Information. |
| Macmillan suffered an illness, and surgery thereon, in 1917, at which time he decided to cease his nascent political career (then in abeyance for the duration of the Great War). In October 1922, he was asked by Bonar Law to become the Solicitor-General for Scotland, which he declined because of his political stripe. |
| In 1923 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Edward Theodore Salvesen (Lord Salvesen), William Archer Tait, Robert Blyth Greig and Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker. He resigned from the Society in 1931. |
| When the Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald was elected in 1924 – the first time the Labour Party had taken power – it had no KCs in Scotland amongst its parliamentary representation. Macdonald therefore turned to Macmillan, whose reputation at the Bar was considerable, to take the job of Lord Advocate, even though he was a Conservative. He served as Lord Advocate from February to November 1924, and was sworn of the Privy Council on 16 April that year. |
