James Campbell Irons
James Campbell Irons FRSE SSC (1840-1910) was a Scottish lawyer, historical author and amateur geologist.
Life
He was born in Dundee on 24 April 1840 the son of David Irons and Mary Bonella.[1] His father was a grocer and tobacconist living and working at 59 Overgate in Dundee.[2] It is believed that he trained as a lawyer in Edinburgh.
In 1870 he was working as a lawyer in Leith at 19 Charlotte Street (now known as Queen Charlotte Street). He was then living at 6 Haddington Place, a relatively opulent Georgian flat near the top of Leith Walk.[3] In1892 he had offices at both 22 York Place in Edinburgh’s First New Town plus 10 Bernard Street in Leith, whilst living at 9 Windsor Street in Edinburgh’s East End.[4]
In 1898 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Andrew Beatson Bell, John Sturgeon Mackay, James Geikie and Peter Guthrie Tait.[5]
In 1909 his offices moved to 19 Dundas Street.
He died on 9 September 1910 and is buried in Rosebank Cemetery in north Edinburgh, just north of the Christian Salvesen monument.
Family
He was narried to Eliza Anne Blackwell (d.1901).
Publications
- Manual of Police Law and Practice (1862)
- The Scottish Justices Manual
- The Burgh Police Act 1892 (1893)
- Manual of the Law and Practice of the Dean of Guild Court (1895)
- Dr Croll’s Life and Work (1896)
- Leith and Its Antiquities
- Treatise on Law and Arbitration in Scotland (1903)
References
- ↑ https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XB87-DYD
- ↑ Dundee Post Office Directory 1842-43
- ↑ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office directory 1870-71
- ↑ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office directory 1892-93
- ↑ BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF FORMER FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.