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| • | George Young (1819 - 1907), Lord Young, was a Scottish politician and judge.
Educated at Edinburgh University, he was called to the Scottish bar in 1840. He served as an advocate depute from 1849 and as sheriff of Inverness from 1853, and of Haddington and Berwick from 1860. He was appointed Solicitor General for Scotland from 1862 to 1865, from 1865 to 1867 and from 1868 to 1869.
He was Liberal Member of Parliament for Wigtown from 1865 to 1874, and held the office of Lord Advocate from 1869 to 1874. He was responsible for the Public Health (Scotland) Act 1871, the Scottish Education Act 1872 and the Law Agents Act 1873. He was raised to the bench in 1874 with the judicial title Lord Young, where he served until 1905.
1819 births|Young, George1907 deaths|Young, GeorgeBritish MPs|Young, GeorgeScottish politicians|Young, GeorgeScottish judges
Source: [wikipedia: george young, lord young]
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