James Ivory, Lord Ivory
Deceased Person
1792 – 1860
Who was James Ivory, Lord Ivory?
James Ivory, Lord Ivory FRSE, was a Scottish judge.
The son of Thomas Ivory, watchmaker and engraver, he was born in Dundee on 29 February 1792. Sir James Ivory the mathematician was his uncle.
After attending the Dundee Academy he studied for the legal profession at Edinburgh University, was admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1810, and in that year was enrolled as a burgess of his native town. When, in 1819, the select committee of the House of Commons was engaged in making inquiries into the state of the Scottish burghs, Ivory was examined with reference to the municipal condition of Dundee, and strongly advocated the abolition of self-election, which was then prevalent in the town councils of Scotland, and continued in force till 1833.
Ivory was chosen advocate depute by Francis Jeffrey, lord advocate, in 1830; two years afterwards he was appointed sheriff of Caithness, and in 1833 was transferred to a similar office in Buteshire. He was Solicitor-General for Scotland under Lord Melbourne's ministry in 1839, was made a lord ordinary of session in the following year, and sat as judge in the court of exchequer. In 1849 he was appointed a lord of justiciary, and served both in the Court of Session and the High Court of Justiciary until his retirement in October 1862. For several years before that date he was the senior judge of both courts.
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