Arthur Henderson Briggs "Andrew" Constable, Lord Constable (3 March 1865 – 4 November 1928) was a Scottish

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, judge and

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politician. He served as

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and as Solicitor General.

Life

He was born in Benarty, Fife, the son of William Briggs Constable. He was educated at Dollar Academy and the

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, where he was Vans Dunlop Scholar in Political Economy. He was admitted as an

in 1889 and appointed a

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in 1908. He was unsuccessful Conservative parliamentary candidate for East Fife in 1900, Kirkcaldy Burghs in 1906, Montrose Burghs in 1908 and Glasgow Blackfriars in 1910. At this time he was living at 23 Royal Circus. He served as Sheriff of Caithness from 1917 to 1920 and of Sheriff of Argyll from February–May 1920, when he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Advocates. He briefly served as Solicitor General for Scotland from March to June 1922. In July 1922 he was appointed a Senator of the College of Justice, succeeding Lord Salvesen, and took the judicial title Lord Constable. He was created a Commander of the

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(CBE) in the 1920 New Year Honours. In 1925 he was elected a Fellow of the

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, his proposers were Sir James Alfred Ewing, Sir Thomas Hudson Beare, Sir Harold Jalland Stiles, and William Wilson. He is buried in a row of modern law lords against the north wall of the 20th century extension to Dean Cemetery in

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Publications

*''Treatise on Provisional Orders'' (1900)

Family

In 1895 he married Elizabeth Simpson (1870–1947).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Constable, Andrew 1865 births 1928 deaths People from Fife People educated at Dollar Academy Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Deans of the Faculty of Advocates

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Scottish King's Counsel Solicitors general for Scotland Unionist Party (Scotland) parliamentary candidates 20th-century King's Counsel Scottish sheriffs