George Lewis MacFarlane, Lord Ormidale LLD (1854–1941) was a Scottish lawyer who served as a

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Life

He was born at 31 Heriot Row in

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on 22 March 1854, the son of Robert MacFarlane WS (1802-1880) and Grace Addison Greig (1827-1880). He was christened on 6 May. He was educated in

then studied law at

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. He was called to the Scottish Bar as an advocate in 1878. In 1880 he is listed as George L. MacFarlane, advocate, living at 14 Moray Place on the highly prestigious

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, having inherited the property from his father. He

took silk A King's Counsel ( post-nominal initials KC) is a senior lawyer appointed by the monarch (or their viceregal representative) of some Commonwealth realms as a "Counsel learned in the law". When the reigning monarch is a woman, the title is Qu ...

in 1903 and was thereafter G L MacFarlane KC (

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) and was also made Sheriff of

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and

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in 1909. He was also Commissioner in Lunacy for Scotland (having the final say as to whether or not individuals were committed to an asylum. In 1910 he was elected a

replacing Alexander Low, Lord Low. He was at this time living a 3 St Colme Street (also on the

). He re-adopted the title Lord Ormidale which had been dormant since the death of his father in 1880 (it was NOT an inherited title).George Lewis MacFarlane: Lord Ormidale by Francis Caird Inglis He died on 21 April 1941.

Family

In 1891 he married Mary Crichton Hunter of 49 Moray Place - the daughter of his neighbour. They had two sons, Robert MacFarlane and Alistair Hunter MacFarlane.

Recognition

Ormidale Terrace in the

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district of Edinburgh is named after Lord Ormidale.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:MacFarlane, George Lewis 1854 births 1941 deaths Lawyers from Edinburgh Alumni of the University of Cambridge 20th-century Scottish judges Senators of the College of Justice Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge