| Administrative History | David Hume was born in Berwickshire in 1757, nephew of the philosopher of the same name. He chose to study law and was admitted advocate in 1779. He had two sheriff court appointments before taking the chair of Scots Law at Edinburgh University, where one of his most famous pupils was Walter Scott (1771-1832). He published authoritatively on criminal law, and was from 1822 to its abolition a Baron of the Scots Exchequer. He died in Edinburgh in 1838. |
| Source | The volume was presented by Hugh Fraser Campbell, (1857-1948), advocate, Dornoch. Campbell was born in Dornoch, Sutherland in 1857, the son of David Campbell. He graduated MA from Aberdeen University in 1879, and B.L. in 1895. He was the first student to be admitted B.L. by the University. He was admitted to the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen in 1897, and practised in Dornoch, where he died in 1948. |