About James Clyde, Baron Clyde
Lived 1932 – 2009 (aged 77). James Clyde, Baron Clyde was a British politician, judge and jurist.
James John Clyde, Baron Clyde, PC (29 January 1932 – 6 March 2009) was a Scottish judge.
Biography James John Clyde was born in Edinburgh on 29 January 1932 the only son and youngest child of Margaret Letitia (1901–1974), (daughter of Arthur Edmund DuBuisson), and James Latham McDiarmid Clyde, (later Lord Clyde (1898–1975).
Clyde received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1991.
On 1 October 1996, he was appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and additionally was created a life peer with the title Baron Clyde, of Briglands in Perthshire and Kinross. In the same year he was invested as a Privy Counsellor. He retired as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in 2001.
Lord Clyde married Ann Clunie Hoblyn in 1963; they had two sons. Lady Clyde died in 2020.
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British judge (1932-2009)
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James Clyde, Baron Clyde was born on 29 January 1932 in Edinburgh.
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James Clyde, Baron Clyde died on 6 March 2009 in Edinburgh.
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