Robert Handyside, Lord Handyside

Robert Handyside, Lord Handyside FRSE (1798–1858) was a Scottish lawyer and judge who served as Solicitor General for Scotland and a Lord of Session.

He was born at 46 South Hanover Street[1] in Edinburgh’s New Town on 26 March 1798, the son of Jane Cuninghame and William Handyside WS (1746–1818), a lawyer.

He studied law at the University of Edinburgh and was made an advocate in 1822.

In 1847 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being John Fleming.

Dying childless, his estates passed back to relatives in the Bruce family after his death.