Education
Fettes College; University of Edinburgh. Oriel College.
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Fettes College; University of Edinburgh. Oriel College.
He was Lord President of the Court of Session from 1935 until he became a Law Lord 1947. Educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh, Oriel College, Oxford, Paris University and Edinburgh University, he was admitted as an advocate in 1910. He served in the Royal Engineers from 1915 to 1918.
He became a King"s Counsel in 1925.
He served briefly as Solicitor General for Scotland in 1929 (from May to June) and from 1931 to 1933, when he was appointed Lord Advocate. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1933.
In April 1935, Normand was appointed to the bench as Lord President and Lord Justice General, succeeding Lord Clyde. He was appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in 1947 and received as a Law lord a life peerage as Baron Normand, of Aberdour in the county of Fife, retiring in 1953.
He was a Trustee of the National Library of Scotland from 1925 to 1946 and again from 1953, and a Trustee of the British Museum from 1950 to 1953.
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He was a Scottish law officer at various stages between 1929 and 1935, and a Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) from 1931 to 1935.