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:''"Lord Constable" redirects here; not to be confused with the subsidiary title of the Viscount of Dunbar.'' Arthur (Andrew) Henderson Briggs Constable, Lord Constable CBE KC FRSE LLD (3 March 1865 – 4 November 1928) was a Scottish advocate, judge and Tory politician. He served as Dean of Faculty and as Solicitor General. ==Life== He was born in Benarty, Fife, the son of William Briggs Constable.〔https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf〕 He was educated at Dollar Academy and at Edinburgh University, where he was Vans Dunlop Scholar in Political Economy, he was admitted as an advocate in 1889 and appointed a King's Counsel in 1908. He was unsuccessful Tory parliamentary candidate for East Fife in 1900, Kirkcaldy Burghs in 1906, Montrose Burghs in 1908 and Glasgow Blackfriars in 1910. He served as Sheriff of Caithness from 1917 to 1920 and of Argyll from February–May 1920, when he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Advocates. He briefly served as Solicitor General for Scotland from March to June 1922. He was appointed a Senator of the College of Justice in 1922, with the judicial title Lord Constable. He was appointed a CBE in 1920. In 1925 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposers were Sir James Alfred Ewing, Sir Thomas Hudson Beare, Sir Harold Jalland Stiles, and William Wilson.〔https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf〕 He is buried in a row of modern law lords against the north wall of the 20th century extension to Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh. 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「Andrew Constable, Lord Constable」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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