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Wilfrid Guild Normand, Baron Normand, (1884 – 5 October 1962), was a Scottish Unionist Party politician and judge. He was a Scottish
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at various stages between 1929 and 1935, and a member of parliament (MP) from 1931 to 1935. He was
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from 1935 until he became a
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in 1947.


Life

Normand was educated at
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,
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,
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,
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and the
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. He was admitted as an advocate on 18 March 1910, the same day as the David King Murray, who also became Solicitor General and a
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. He served in the
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from 1915 to 1918. He became a
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in 1925. He unsuccessfully contested Edinburgh West at the 1929 general election, but won the seat at the 1931 general election. until his resignation in 1935, causing a
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which was won by Thomas Cooper. He served briefly as
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in 1929 (from May to June) and from 1931 to 1933, when he was appointed
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. He was appointed a
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in 1933. In April 1935, Normand was appointed to the bench as Lord President and
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, succeeding Lord Clyde and taking the
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Lord Normand. He was appointed a
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in 1947 and received as a
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a
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as Baron Normand, of Aberdour in the county of
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, retiring in 1953. He was a Trustee of the
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from 1925 to 1946 and again from 1953, and a Trustee of the
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from 1950 to 1953. He is buried with his two wives, Gertrude Lawson (1886–1923), and Marion Cunningham (1880–1972), in the north-west section of the first northern extension to
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in western
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. The grave lies in the first north extension to its western end.


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