(b.1904 - d.1961) Lawyer and Nationalist. Founder of the Scottish National Party (1932) and lawyer in Glasgow. Resigned from the party (1942) following controversy over attitudes towards the war. He was involved in the mysterious affair surrounding the theft of the Stone of Destiny from Westminster Abbey (1950) and its return to Arbroath Abbey. He was also responsible for the constitutional challenge (1953) over Queen Elizabeth being the second, rather than the first, which of course she was in Scotland. He was elected rector of the University of Glasgow (1950-3). His son Iain served as nationalist Member of Parliament for Argyll (1974), and his second son Neil was Professor of Law and Vice-Principal of the University of Edinburgh, and Euro-MP for the Lothians.

Derived from the Gazetteer for Scotland with permission.

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