James Clyde, Baron Clyde

Clyde served in the Intelligence Corps from 1954 to 1956, and was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1959.

In 1972, he was made Chancellor to the Bishop of Argyll, and in 1979 Judge of the Courts of Appeal of Jersey and Guernsey, holding both posts until 1985.

Clyde was Director of Edinburgh Academy from 1979 to 1988 and vice-president of the Royal Blind Asylum and School from 1987 until his death.

[1] Clyde received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1991[2] On 1 October 1996, he was appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and additionally was created a life peer with the title Baron Clyde, of Briglands in Perthshire and Kinross.

Lord Clyde married Ann Clunie Hoblyn in 1963; they had two sons.