William Stewart, Lord Allanbridge

William Ian Stewart, Lord Allanbridge (8 November 1925 – 21 June 2012)[1] was a Scottish lawyer, judge and politician, who served as Solicitor General for Scotland, the country's junior Law Officer from 1972 to 1974, and as a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland, from 1977 to 1995.

He was educated at Loretto School and studied at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, and served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve at the end of the Second World War from 1944 to 1946.

[4][5] The Solicitor General was the junior of the two Law Officers then existing in respect of Scotland, the senior being the Lord Advocate, an office held at the time by Norman Wylie, MP for Edinburgh Pentlands.

From April to December that year, he served as temporary Sheriff Principal of Dumfries and Galloway, the post vacated by his successor as Solicitor General, John McCluskey (later Lord McCluskey).

The simple grave lies in the group of modern stones where the original cemetery links to its north Victorian extension.