David Boyle (1772 - 1853) was a Scottish judge. He became an advocate in 1793. He was Member of Parliament for Ayrshire from 1807 to 1811 during which time he was appointed Solicitor General for Scotland. He was appointed a Senator of the College of Justice, as Lord Boyle in 1811. He was Lord Justice Clerk from 1811 to 1841 and Lord Justice General from 1841 to 1852. He became a Privy Counsellor in 1820.

Charles Hope (1763 - 1851), was a Scottish politician and judge. The eldest son of John Hope (1739-85), he studied law at Edinburgh University. He was admitted as an advocate in 1784 and was appointed sheriff of Orkney in 1792. He was Member of Parliament for Edinburgh from 1803 to 1805. He was appointed Lord Advocate from 1801 to 1804. He was raised to the bench as Lord Granton and served as Lord Justice Clerk from 1804 to 1811, …

William Graham (1591-1661), 7th Earl of Menteith, 1st Earl of Airth, was a Scottish nobleman. Appointed a member of the Privy Council of Scotland in 1626, he was Lord President of the Court of Session from 1628, an office he held in conjunction with that of Lord Justice General. He was held in great favour by Charles I, who appointed him a member of the English Privy Council.

William Cunningham (1610 - 1664), 8th Earl of Glencairn, was a Scottish nobleman, Lord Chancellor of Scotland, and a cavalier. A Scottish Privy Counsellor and Commissioner of the Treasury in 1641, he was appointed Lord Justice General in 1646, a post he held until 1649. He was privy to the attempted rescue of Charles I in 1648, and was commissioned by Charles II to command the King's forces in Scotland in 1653.

John Inglis, Lord Glencorse (1810-1891) was a Scottish politician and Judge. He was Lord President of the Court of Session (1867-1891). The youngest son of John Inglis, a Church of Scotland minister, Inglis was born in Edinburgh in August 1810. From the University of Glasgow he went to Balliol College, Oxford. He was admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1835, and in 1852 he was made Solicitor General for Scotland in Lord Derby's first ministry, …

Arthur Campbell Hamilton, Lord Hamilton, PC (born Glasgow, 10 June, 1942), is Scotland's most senior judge. He was chosen as Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session in November 2005, succeeding Lord Cullen. Arthur Campbell Hamilton was born in Glasgow and attended Glasgow High School. He studied at the University of Glasgow, Worcester College, Oxford University and Edinburgh University, where he gained an LLB in 1967.

Duncan Forbes (1685 - 1747) was a Scottish politician and judge. The second son of Duncan Forbes, MP for Nairn and Inveness, he studied law at Leiden University and became an advocate and sheriff of Midlothian in 1709. He was appointed depute-advocate for his services against the rebels in 1715. He was elected Member of Parliament for Inverness Burghs in 1722 and was appointed Lord Advocate in 1725. In 1737 he was raised to the bench as President of the Court of Session, …

Robert Craigie (1685 - 10 March 1760) was a Scottish politician and judge. On 2 April, 1742 he was elected Member of Parliament for the Tain Burghs constituency in northern Scotland. He continued to represent this seat until the general election of 1747, when he did not seek re-election. Admitted as an advocate in 1710, he was appointed Lord Advocate in 1742 and Lord President of the Court of Session in 1754.

William Douglas Cullen, Baron Cullen of Whitekirk, PC (born 18 November, 1935), is one of the senior members of the Scottish Judiciary. He was appointed as Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session in 2001. He is a cross bench member of the House of Lords and was created a life peer in 2003, as Baron Cullen of Whitekirk, of Whitekirk in East Lothian, …

James Avon Clyde, Lord Clyde (1863 - 1944) was a Scottish politician and judge. Clyde was called to the Scots Bar in 1889, becoming a KC in 1901. He was later Dean of the Faculty of Advocates from 1915-1918. He held office briefly as Solicitor General for Scotland in late 1905. He was the unsuccessful Tory candidate for Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire in 1906.

Alan Ferguson Rodger, Baron Rodger of Earlsferry, PC, QC, FRSE (born 18 September 1944) is a Scottish judge. He was educated at Kelvinside Academy, Glasgow, the University of Glasgow and at New College, Oxford. He was a Junior Research Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford from 1969 to 1970 and a Fellow of New College from 1970 to 1972. He became an advocate in 1974 and was Clerk of the Faculty of Advocates from 1976 to 1979.

James Latham McDiarmid Clyde, Lord Clyde (30 October 1898 - 30 June 1975) was a Scottish Unionist politician and judge. The eldest son of James Avon Clyde, Lord Clyde, he was educated at Edinburgh Academy, Trinity College, Oxford and Edinburgh University, and was admitted as an advocate in 1924 and as a King's Counsel in 1936. He was an unsuccessful parliamentary candidate for Midlothian South and Peebles in 1945, …

John Blair Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross, PC, QC (11 July 1837 - 22 January 1905) was a Scottish lawyer and politician. Born in Clackmannan, he was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and Edinburgh University, becoming an advocate of the Scottish bar in 1861. He served as Advocate Depute from 1870 to 1872, and in 1880 was made a Queen's Counsel. That same year he was elected Liberal Member of Parliament for Clackmannan and Kinross, …

Alexander Ure, 1st Baron Strathclyde GBE (22 February 1853 - 2 October1928) was a Scottish politician and judge. Educated at the University of Glasgow he was admitted to membership of the Faculty of Advocates in 1878. He was Liberal Member of Parliament for Linlithgowshire from 1895 to 1913. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1897. He served as Solicitor General for Scotland from 1905 to 1909, and as Lord Advocate from 1909 to 1913.

Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry and 2nd Duke of Dover (1698 - 1778) was a Scottish nobleman. The son of James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, 1st Duke of Dover, and Mary Boyle, daughter of Charles Boyle, Viscount Dungarven, was a Privy Counsellor and Vice Admiral of Scotland. He took up the cause of John Gay when a licence for his opera "Polly" was refused in 1728. He quarrelled with George II and resigned his appointments in the same year.

Colin Campbell, 3rd Earl of Argyll (c. 1486 - 09 October, 1529) was a Scottish nobleman and soldier. He was the son of Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll and Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of John Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox. In 1506/07 he married Lady Jean Gordon, the eldest daughter of Alexander Gordon, 3rd Earl of Huntly. Campbell led an army against the insurrection of various Highland chieftains; a few years later, …

Sir Thomas Miller, 1st Baronet (3 November 1717 - 27 September 1789), known as Lord Glenlee during his judicial service, was a Scottish politician and judge. Educated at the University of Glasgow, he became an advocate in 1742 and was solicitor of the Excise in Scotland from 1755. He was appointed Solicitor General for Scotland in 1759, and promoted to Lord Advocate in 1760. He was Member of Parliament for Dumfries Burghs from 1761 to 1766, …

James Arthur David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead, PC (born 27 June 1938) is a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy, Rugby School, St John's College, Cambridge and at the University of Edinburgh. After National service with the Seaforth Highlanders he was admitted as an advocate in 1965 and became a Queen's Counsel in 1978. He was an Advocate Depute from 1978 to 1982, …

George Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Cromartie (1630 - 1714) was a Scottish statesman. Educated at St Andrews University and Aberdeen University, he succeeded to the family estates in 1654 but, as a royalist, remained in exile until 1660. He was appointed a Lord of Session in 1662, and planned Lauderdale's downfall by means of the "Act of Billeting" in the same year. He was deprived of office in 1664. He was appointed Lord Justice General in 1678, …

Sir Thomas Hamilton, 1st Earl of Haddington (1563- May 29, 1637), designated before his peerage as 'of Drumcarny, Monkland, and Binning', was a Scottish administrator, Lord Advocate, judge, and Lord Lieutenant of Haddingtonshire.

James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose KG, KT (8 September 1755 - 30 December 1836) was a Scottish nobleman and statesman. Known before his succession to the ducal title in 1790 as Lord Graham, he was Member of Parliament for Richmond from 1780, and for Great Bedwyn from 1784 to 1790. He served as a Lord of the Treasury from 1783 to 1789, and as co-Paymaster of the Forces from 1789 to 1791. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor and Vice-President of the Board of Trade in 1789.

James Drummond, 1st Duke of Perth, 4th Earl of Perth, 7th Lord Drummond, KT, PC (1648 - May 11, 1716) was a Scottish statesman, and Jacobite.

George Carlyle Emslie, Baron Emslie (b. 6 December 1919), is a retired Scottish judge. Educated at the High School of Glasgow and the University of Glasgow, he was commissioned in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and served in World War II in North Africa, Italy, Greece and Austria, rising to the rank of Brigade Major from 1944 to 1946. He was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1946. He became an advocate in 1948 and served as an Advocate Depute from 1955.

Sir Ilay Campbell of Succoth (1734 - 1823) was a Scottish judge. An advocate from 1757, he was engaged in the Douglas peerage case from 1764 to 1769. He was appointed Solicitor General for Scotland in 1783 and Lord Advocate in 1784. He became Member of Parliament for Glasgow Burghs in the same year. He was Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General from 1789 to 1808, where he sat as Lord Succoth. On his resignation in 1808, he was created a baronet, …

David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield PC KT (9 October 1727-1 September 1796), known from 1748 to 1793 as the Viscount Stormont, was a British politician. Mansfield was the son of David Murray, 6th Viscount Stormont, and his wife Anne Stewart. Lord Chief Justice William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield was his uncle. He was ambassador to Vienna and then to France in the early years of the American Revolutionary War, …

Robert Dundas, Lord Arniston, the elder (1685 - 1753) was a Scottish judge. The second son of Robert Dundas (d. 1726) he served as Solicitor General for Scotland from 1717 to 1720 and as Lord Advocate from 1720 to 1725. He was Dean of the Faculty of Advocates from 1721. He was Member of Parliament for Midlothian from 1722 to 1727, 1727 to 1734 and 1734-7; He was chief adviser of Lord Ilay's opponents. He was Lord President of the Court of Session from 1748 to 1753.

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, …

Andrew Graham Murray, 1st Viscount Dunedin GCVO, PC (21 November 1849-21 August 1942) was a Scottish politician and judge. Member of Parliament for Bute and Caithness from 1891 to 1905, Murray was appointed Solicitor General for Scotland from 1891-1892 and from 1895-1896, and Lord Advocate 1896-1903. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1896. He was Secretary for Scotland in the Balfour government from 1903-1905.

Duncan McNeill, 1st Baron Colonsay (August 1793 - 31 January 1874) was a Scottish judge, born at Oronsay, the son of John McNeill (1767-1846) laird of Colonsay and Oronsay, and his wife Hester nee McNeill. Educated at St Andrew's University where he graduated M.D., and Edinburgh University where he read law, he became an advocate in 1816. He was appointed Sheriff of Perthshire in 1824, and Solicitor General for Scotland from 1834-5, and again from 1841 to 1842, …

Sir William Lockhart of Lee (1621 - 1675), after fighting on the side of Charles I in the English Civil War, attached himself to Oliver Cromwell, whose niece he married, and who later appointed Lockhart commissioner for the administration of justice in Scotland in 1652. He was also the English ambassador at the French court in 1656, where he greatly distinguished himself by his successful diplomacy.

Thomas Mackay Cooper, 1st Baron Cooper of Culross, KC (September 24, 1892 - July 15, 1955) was a Scottish politician, Judge and historian. Cooper was admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1915 and was created a King's Counsel in 1927. He was Conservative Member of Parliament for Edinburgh West from a by-election in 1935 to 1941. In 1935 he was appointed Solicitor General for Scotland and later that year he was appointed as Lord Advocate.

William Douglas (1637-1695), 3rd Earl of Queensberry, 1st Marquess of Queensberry, and 1st Duke of Queensberry was a Scottish politician. He was the son of James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Queensberry and his second wife Margaret Stewart, daughter of John Stewart, 1st Earl of Traquair. He was appointed a Scottish Privy Councillor in 1667, Lord Justice General from 1680 to 1682, Lord High Treasurer of Scotland from 1682 to 1686.

Robert Kerr (1636 - 1703), 4th Earl and 1st Marquess of Lothian was a Scottish nobleman. The eldest son of William Kerr, 3rd Earl of Lothian, he was born at New Battle, Midlothian. He left Scotland and was educated in Paris. Eventually, he would succeed his uncle Charles as Earl of Ancram. Kerr was a volunteer in the Dutch War of 1673. He succeeded his father to the earldom in 1675.

James Patrick Bannerman Robertson, Baron Robertson (1845 - 1909), was a Scottish politician and judge. He studied at Edinburgh University (MA 1864, hon LLD 1890), and was Rector of the University in 1893. He passed to the Scottish bar in 1867 and became a Queen's Counsel in 1885. He was appointed Solicitor General for Scotland in 1885 and again in 1886. He was Conservative Member of Parliament for Buteshire from 1885 to 1886 and from 1886 to 1891.

Robert Boyd (d. c. 1469) Lord Boyd, was a Scottish statesman. A son of Sir Thomas Boyd (d. 1439), Robert Boyd belonged to an old and distinguished family, one member of which, Sir Robert Boyd, had fought with Wallace and Robert Bruce. Created Lord Boyd in 1454, he was one of the regents during the minority of James III in 1460. He conspired with his brother, Sir Alexander Boyd, …

Robert Dundas, Lord Arniston, the younger (1713 - 1787) was a Scottish judge. The eldest son of Robert Dundas (1685 - 1753), he was deducated at Edinburgh University and studied Roman law at Utrecht University. Dundas served as Solicitor General for Scotland from 1742 to 1746 and as Lord Advocate from 1754 to 1760. He was Member of Parliament for Midlothian from 1754. He was Lord President of the Court of Session from 1760 to 1787, …

Sir Archibald Primrose, 1st Baronet, Lord Carrington, (May 16 1616--November 27 1679), was a notable Scottish lawyer, judge, and Cavalier. The son of James Primrose (d. 1641) by Catherine, daughter of Richard Lawson of Boghall, he succeeded his father, who had held the office for upwards of forty years, as Clerk to the Privy Council on September 2, 1641. Following the victory of Kilsyth he joined Montrose, was taken prisoner at Philiphaugh on September 13, 1645, …