Henry Lauder, Lord St Germains

Who was Henry Lauder, Lord St Germains?

Henry Lauder, Lord St Germains was Lord Advocate of Scotland and one of the nine advocates nominated and appointed at the institution of the College of Justice as an Ordinary Lord, styled Lord St Germains, 13 January 1538. He was a son of Gilbert Lauder, a son of Lauder of Haltoun, a Baillie & Burgess of Edinburgh, by his first wife Elizabeth Hopper. Henry Lauder was made a Burgess of Edinburgh on 14 March 1517 by right as son of his father.

In the Registrum Cartorum Domus de Soltre under date 16 August 1516, mention is made of "Magister et Dominus Henricus Lauder". Henry Lauder was described as Sheriff of Perth, by commission, in a sasine dated at Edinburgh 11 August 1518. In August 1524 he is described as one of the Sheriffs of Linlithgow, Berwickshire, Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire in April 1525, and of Selkirk again in May 1527.

He became a confidant, Deputy Advocate, Joint Lord Advocate, and Lord Advocate to King James V and Mary, Queen of Scots..