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George Gordon Stott, later Lord Stott PC QC (22 December 1909 – 12 April 1999) was a Scottish advocate, sheriff and Lord Advocate – the chief legal officer for the Crown and government in Scotland. In retirement Gordon Stott published three volumes of extracts from the diaries he had been keeping throughout his legal career. ==Personal life== Gordon Stott was born in 1909, youngest son of Rev Dr George Stott, minister of Cramond Kirk, Edinburgh, and Flora Stott. He attended the village school there and went on to Edinburgh Academy and Edinburgh University where he graduated with first-class honours in Classics and won the Vans Dunlop Scholarship in law. He was a pacifist and during World War II he was a conscientious objector, working on the land rather than doing military service. On behalf of other conscientious objectors, he acted as ''pro bono'' counsel at the tribunal for conscientious objectors. From 1939 to 1944 he edited a Labour journal, the ''Edinburgh Clarion''.〔 He unsuccessfully stood for parliament as Labour candidate for Central Aberdeenshire in 1935, Edinburgh West in 1945 and Edinburgh North in 1959.〔〔 He was a founder member of the Muir Society of Labour Lawyers and secretary of the Edinburgh and District Trades Council.〔 In 1947 he married Nancy Braggins and they had two children, Elizabeth and Richard.〔 His hobbies were walking, fishing, reading and golf.〔〔 Stott was friendly and compassionate, with a plain-spoken and independent manner that showed little tolerance for hypocrisy.〔 Of the government of which he had been a member he wrote "On Vietnam the Government gave the appearance of being committed to support the United States whose bombing aeroplanes continued for no intelligible purpose to lavish on that unfortunate country an increasingly powerful but futile demonstration of the American way of death".〔 In his retirement Stott published three volumes of his diaries filled with amusing and indiscreet anecdotes: Lord Advocate's Diary (1991), Judge's Diary (1995) and QC's Diary (1998).〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gordon Stott, Lord Stott」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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