George Lewis MacFarlane

George Lewis MacFarlane, Lord Ormidale LLD (1854–1941) was a Scottish lawyer who served as a Senator of the College of Justice.

He was born at 31 Heriot Row[1] in Edinburgh on 22 March 1854, the son of Robert MacFarlane WS (1802-1880) and Grace Addison Greig (1827-1880).

He was educated in Edinburgh then studied law at St John's College, Cambridge.

[3] He took silk in 1903 and was thereafter G L MacFarlane KC (King's Counsel) and was also made Sheriff of Fife and Kinross in 1909.

In 1891 he married Mary Crichton Hunter of 49 Moray Place - the daughter of his neighbour.