John Millar, Lord Craighill

John Millar, Lord Craighill (1817–1888) was a Scottish lawyer and judge. He served two brief terms as Solicitor General for Scotland and in 1874 was appointed a Senator of the College of Justice.

Life

Millar was born in 1817, the son of John Hepburn Millar, a Glasgow merchant. Millar studied at the University of Glasgow and in 1842 was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates. In 1863, he married Elizabeth Neaves, daughter of Lord Neaves, a Senator of the College of Justice and former Solicitor General.

He lived at 2 Ainslie Place on the Moray Estate in Edinburgh's West End. (A newspaper obituary in the Aberdeen Free Press, 24 September 1888, page 5 column 1, several other newspaper obituaries, and also his probate record, say 3 Ainslie Place.)

He died in Edinburgh on 22 September 1888, at the age of 71. He is buried with his family in Grange Cemetery in south Edinburgh. The grave lies facing west onto the western path near the north-west entrance.

Family

He married Elizabeth Neaves, daughter of Charles Neaves, Lord Neaves.

Their children included John Hepburn Millar LL.D. (1864–1929), a lawyer, historian, academic and author.