Norman Wylie, Lord Wylie Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Right Honourable
Lord Wylie
Office1:Member of Parliament
for Edinburgh Pentlands
Term Start1:15 October 1964
Term End1:8 February 1974
Predecessor1:John Hope
Successor1:Malcolm Rifkind
Birth Name:Norman Russell Wylie
Birth Date:1923 10, df=y
Birth Place:Elderslie, Scotland
Nationality:British
Party:Conservative Party
Otherparty:Unionist (before 1965)
Education:Paisley Grammar School
Serviceyears:1942 - 1946
Unit:Fleet Air Arm

Norman Russell Wylie, Lord Wylie, (26 October 1923 – 7 September 2005) was a Scottish Conservative and Scottish Unionist politician, lawyer, and judge.

Born in Elderslie, he was educated at Paisley Grammar School, St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and the universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. He served in the Fleet Air Arm from 1942 to 1946. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh Pentlands between October 1964 and February 1974. Between 1970 and 1974 he held the title of Lord Advocate having briefly been Solicitor General for Scotland from April to October 1964. He was a Senator of the College of Justice from 1974 to 1990, and later served as a Justice of Appeal in the Republic of Botswana from 1994 to 1996.

His son Neville Wylie is an associate professor of politics at the University of Nottingham.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Neville Wylie biography – School of Politics and International Relations – University of Nottingham . 5 January 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101114153656/http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/politics/staff/neville.wylie . 14 November 2010 . dead .