Education
Milligan was educated at Sherborne School, University College, Oxford, and the University of Glasgow.
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William Rankine Milligan
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He served as Solicitor General for Scotland and Lord Advocate. At Oxford, he was elected President of Vincent"s Club in 1923. In the First World War, Milligan served with the Highland Light Infantry from 1917 to 1919.
Milligan was admitted as an advocate in 1925, and appointed a King"s Counsel in 1945.
He was appointed Solicitor General for Scotland from 1951 to 1954, and Lord Advocate from 1955 to 1960, and was made a Privy Counsellor in 1955. He was appointed to the College of Justice in 1960, with the judicial title Lord Milligan.
He retired in 1973. Milligan was an unsuccessful parliamentary candidate at Glasgow Street Rollox in 1945 and again at Central Ayrshire in 1950 and 1951, and was elected for Edinburgh North in a 1955 by-election, where he served until 1960.
Membership
41st United Kingdom Parliament. 42nd United Kingdom Parliament]
Milligan was a member of the Royal Company of Archers.
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Political Party
Conservative Party