The life and achievements of James, First Baron Moncreiff, 1811 to 1895
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The life and achievements of James, First Baron Moncreiff, 1811 to 1895
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Bain, Wilson Harvey, author.
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9780438059375
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1 electronic resource (304 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-08C.
Advisors: H. Hutchison.
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This study of the life and achievements of James# first Baron Moncreiff (1811 - 1893) was based upon critical analysis chiefly of primary sources, including Parliamentary measures and debates; manuscript papers such as letters, memorials and memoranda; conten5)orary newspapers, periodicals, and diaries; pamphlets and speeches. Essential information was gained from James Moncreiff's own speeches in court. Parliament, Universities and other platforms and his writings, chiefly in the Reviews, The secondary sources available incJuded G.W. T, Omond's "Lives of the Lord Advocates" which sheds invaluable light on Koncreiff ' s private life as well as on his public duties. Moncreiff's youth in Edinburgh at the time of Waterloo and "Peterloo" his days at the High School of Edinburgh with its emphasis still firmly on the Classics, and his Arts and legal studies at the University of Edinburgh all had a strong influence on a receptive mind. At twenty, "the Don", as some fellow students called him, was already a man of whom success was expected, and he later described his University days as "the gold-yielding territory" on which a sound career and happy life could be built. After the usual early struggles to gain briefs, Moncreiff won a reputation as a good advocate, particularly knowledgeable about Church matters, and he was engaged in several important cases such as that of Marnoch, at a time when his father, the judge Lord Moncrieff, was closely involved with those who, like James, joined the Free Church after the Disruption of 1843. Always interested in politics as much as in the law, James Moncreiff became Solicitor-General and, in 1851, Lord Advocate in Russell's Ministry. For the next eighteen years, with three short periods in opposition, he served, as a staunch "Edinburgh Whig", in several Liberal Governments under Lord Aberdeen, Lord Palmerston, Lord John Russell, and William Gladstone. A heavy burden was made more difficult when the post of Lord Advocate itself was attacked by some Members, who considered that Scottish business was shabbily treated in the House, and that a Secretary of State for Scotland, as well as legal officers, was required. During his years in the House of Commons (1851 - 69), Moncreiff was particularly concerned to establish a fully national system of education, but his major Bills of 1854, 1855, 1856, 1862, and that of 1869 introduced by the 8th Duke of Argyll, were defeated. This occurred largely because Church of Scotland opinion opposed any weakening of the links with the parish schools and because 3nglish Members of both Houses feared the Bills would become "pilot balloons" for a similar measure in England, As a result, the Lords, influenced by such opposition, obstructed the measures, despite Scottish M.Ps. voting for them. Moncreiff did, however, succeed in opening the parish as well as burgh schools to those outside the Church of Scotland, by the Parochial and Burgh Schoolmasters. Act of 1861, and with his colleagues, Alexander Murray Dunlop, the Duke of Argyll, and John Clerk Brodie, he helped to keep the issue before the public and Parliament. Although there were important differences between his proposals and the Education Act of 1872, there is little doubt that George Young's measure was influenced in important respects by the preparatory work already done. Moncreiff was also one of the most experienced members of the Duke of Argyll's Commission, which produced such detailed statistics on Scotland's schools and the number of children attending or absent, that many claims for the efficiency of the existing system were greatly weakened.
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School code: 0547
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