Brand, David
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| Birthname | David William Robert Brand | ||||
| born on | 21 October 1923 at 02:00 (= 02:00 AM ) | ||||
| Place | Edinburgh, Scotland, 55n57, 3w13 | ||||
| Timezone | GMT h0e (is standard time) | ||||
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| Astrology data |   26°39'   16°05 Asc. 07°01'
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Biography
Scottish lawyer and judge, he had a conservative outlook on life, and as a judge he had a reputation for both speedy decisions and severe sentences.
His university education was interrupted by service in the British Army during World War II. He then became an advocate, and after a career as a prosecutor, he was a sheriff in southern Scotland from 1968 to 1970. He was Solicitor-General for Scotland from 1970 to 1972, and then served from 1972 to 1989 as a Senator of the College of Justice. In 1994, he was briefly an appellate judge in Botswana.
Brand's memoir An Advocate's Tale was published in 1996. He married twice and had four daughters. He died in North Berwick on 14 April 1996 at age 72.
Events
- Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1996 (Memoir, "An Advocate's Tale")
Source Notes
Paul Wright from Birth Certificate, cited in AA database.
Categories
- Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages (Two)
- Family : Parenting : Kids 1-3 (Two daughters)
- Vocation : Law : Attorney (Lawyer)
- Vocation : Law : Jurist (Judge)
- Vocation : Law : Police (Sheriff)
- Vocation : Writers : Autobiographer (Memoir, "An Advocate's Tale")
