James Galbraith (British politician)

James Francis Wallace Galbraith (1872 – 29 January 1945) was a British politician and judge.

[2] After Oxford he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1893, and practiced as a barrister for many years.

He became a King's Counsel in 1919, and was elected as treasurer of the General Council of the Bar in 1921.

In 1922, he was selected as the prospective candidate for East Surrey, a more affluent Conservative safe seat.

Galbraith was expected to stand for re-election, but shortly after dissolution it was announced that he would be appointed as a county court judge in Leicester, which would render him unable to be elected to Parliament.