WILLIAM GEORGE
SCOTT-MONCRIEFF
SHERIFF SCOTT-MONCRIEFF is a son of the late Rev. William
Scott-Moncrieff, and was born 15th April, 1846. He was educated privately and at
Edinburgh University, where he graduated M.A. in 1866. He studied for the
profession of Law, and passed as an advocate in 1870. Seven years later he was
appointed Sheriff-Substitute of Banffshire, and at further intervals of ten
years was transferred to Stirlingshire and Inverness-shire respectively. He was
appointed Sheriff-Substitute of Lanarkshire at Lanark in 1900. Besides
contributing to legal journals, he has edited, for the Scottish History Society,
"Nimmo's Narrative" and "Justiciary Proceedings." He is also upon the
Departmental Commission on the Inebriates Acts, 1908. In 1878 he married Jessie
Margaret, daughter of Robert Scott-Moncrieff, Edinburgh.
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