Duncan McNeill, Baron Colonsay and Oronsay
1793–1874
Lawyer and politician. Became a member of the Scottish bar in 1816. Solicitor-general for Scotland, 1834–5, 1841–2. Appointed lord advocate, 1842. Conservative MP for Argyll, 1843–6. Appointed judge of the Court of Session, 1851, taking the title Lord Colonsay and Oronsay; lord justice-general and lord president of the Court of Session, 1852; appeals judge, 1867, taking the title Baron Colonsay and Oronsay.
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ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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