Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron Macmillan GCVO PC (20 February 1873 – 5 September 1952) was a Scottish judge.[1]
The son of the Revd Hugh Macmillan and Jane Pattinson, he was educated at Collegiate School, Greenock, at the University of Edinburgh (M.A. 1st in class honours in philosophy, 1893 Bruce of Grangehill and Falkland Scholarship[2]) and the University of Glasgow (LLB).[1] He was indentured for three years to the firm Cowan, Fraser and Clapperton while he studied the Law,[3] in which he distinguished himself by winning the Cunningham Scholarship for Conveyancing in the year 1896.[4] He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1897 with public defence of assigned Thesis on De diversis regulis juris antiqui,[5] and later became King's Counsel in 1912.[1] He wrote for a time articles in conveyancing for Green's Encyclopedia of Scots Law,[4] and was Editor of the quarterly Juridical Review between 1900 and 1907
The son of the Revd Hugh Macmillan and Jane Pattinson, he was educated at Collegiate School, Greenock, at the University of Edinburgh (M.A. 1st in class honours in philosophy, 1893 Bruce of Grangehill and Falkland Scholarship[2]) and the University of Glasgow (LLB).[1] He was indentured for three years to the firm Cowan, Fraser and Clapperton while he studied the Law,[3] in which he distinguished himself by winning the Cunningham Scholarship for Conveyancing in the year 1896.[4] He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1897 with public defence of assigned Thesis on De diversis regulis juris antiqui,[5] and later became King's Counsel in 1912.[1] He wrote for a time articles in conveyancing for Green's Encyclopedia of Scots Law,[4] and was Editor of the quarterly Juridical Review between 1900 and 1907
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