Alastair McPherson Johnston, Lord Dunpark

A controversial and sometimes very lenient judge he made several important rulings in Scots Law such as Porchetta v Porchetta which established that a child's rights were superior to the rights of a father (or mother) and the child's welfare was the paramount issue.

[1] He was born in Stirling on 15 December 1915 the son of Rev Alexander McPherson Johnston and his wife Eleanora Guthrie Wyllie.

He was created a Senator of the College of Justice in October 1971 with the title of Lord Dunpark.

[2] From 1969 to 1973 Lord Dunpark served as Chairperson of the influential Edinburgh conservationist organisation the Cockburn Association.

[5] Following Bunty's death in 1985 he married Kathleen Elizabeth Sarah Welsh (1919–2003) of County Monaghan in Ireland, widow of John C Macfie of 17 Heriot Row.