Andrew Constable, Lord Constable
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Andrew Henderson Briggs Constable, Lord Constable, CBE, KC ,(3 March 1865 - 4 November 1928) was a Scottish Conservative politician and judge.
Educated at Dollar Academy and at Edinburgh University, where he was Vans Dunlop Scholar in Political Economy, he was admitted as an advocate in 1889 and appointed a King's Counsel in 1908.
He was unsuccessful Conservative parliamentary candidate for East Fife in 1900, Kirkcaldy Burghs in 1905, Montrose Burghs in 1908 and Glasgow Blackfriars in 1910.
He served as Sheriff of Caithness from 1917 to 1920 and of Argyll from February-May 1920, when he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Advocates. He briefly served as Solicitor General for Scotland from March to June 1922. He was appointed a Senator of the College of Justice in 1922, with the judicial title Lord Constable.
He was appointed a CBE in 1920.
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| Preceded by: Charles David Murray |
Solicitor General for Scotland March-June 1922 |
Succeeded by: William Watson |
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