James John Clyde, Baron Clyde,PC (29 January 1932 – 6 March 2009) was aScottish judge.
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), andJames Latham McDiarmid Clyde, (later Lord Clyde (1898–1975).[1] He was grandson ofJames Avon Clyde, Lord Clyde.
He attendedEdinburgh Academy. In 1954 he graduated with a BALiterae Humaniores fromCorpus Christi College, Oxford, and from theUniversity of Edinburgh, graduating with aBachelor of Laws in 1959.
Clyde served in theIntelligence Corps from 1954 to 1956, and was admitted to theFaculty of Advocates in 1959. In 1971, he became aQueen's Counsel (Scotland) and wasadvocate-depute from 1973 to 1974. In 1972, he was made Chancellor to theBishop of Argyll, and in 1979 Judge of the Courts of Appeal of Jersey and Guernsey, holding both posts until 1985. Between 1985 and 1996, Clyde wasSenator of the College of Justice (with thejudicial courtesy title ofLord Clyde), and in 1996 he was electedHonorary Master of the Bench of the Middle Temple. From 2003 to 2006, he was a member of the Justice Oversight Commission (Northern Ireland).
Clyde was Director of Edinburgh Academy from 1979 to 1988 and vice-president of theRoyal Blind Asylum and School from 1987 until his death. He was Hon. President of the Scottish Young Lawyers' Association between 1988 and 1997, Governor of theNapier Polytechnic and University between 1989 and 1993, and assessor to theChancellor of the University of Edinburgh between 1989 and 1997. He chaired the 1992Orkney child abuse inquiry.[1]
Clyde received an Honorary Doctorate fromHeriot-Watt University in 1991[2]
On 1 October 1996, he was appointedLord of Appeal in Ordinary and additionally was created alife peer with the titleBaron Clyde,of Briglands inPerthshire and Kinross.[3] In the same year he was invested as aPrivy 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.[4]
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