Education
He studied at Edinburgh University.
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William Rae
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He served as Lord Advocate from 1819 to 1830 and from 1834 to 1835. He was made a Privy Councillor on 19 July 1830. Grant"s Old and New Edinburgh tells us that he was present at the Great Edinburgh Fire of 1824, actively trying to extinguish the flames of the building on the Royal Mile at the head of Old Assembly Close as it was "the house of his birth".
The stone is surprisingly modest.
Membership
6th United Kingdom Parliament. 7th United Kingdom Parliament. 8th United Kingdom Parliament.
9th United Kingdom Parliament.
10th United Kingdom Parliament. 11th United Kingdom Parliament.
12th United Kingdom Parliament. 13th United Kingdom Parliament.
14th United Kingdom Parliament]
He was Member of Parliament for Anstruther Burghs, in Fife, from 1819 to 1826, Harwich, Essex, England, from 1827 to 1830, Buteshire in 1830 and from 1833 to 1842, and for Portarlington, Queen"s County, Ireland, from 1831 to 1832.
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October 19, 1842 (aged 73) -
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United Kingdom