' Law and the Citizen'
Lord MACMILLAN from the Lecture Hal! of the Royal
Philosophical Society of Glasgow
National Lectures are a rare and important event in the programmes. The first was given by the late Poet Laureate. Robert Bridges , on February 28, 1929, and the latest by the Archbishop of York, who spoke on ' Faith and Freedom ' on May 30, 1935.
Today's ' National Lecture '-the seventeenth-is to be given by Lord Macmillan before members of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow in the Lecture Hall of the Society at 207, Bath Street.
Lord Macmillan took silk in 1912, has been a Privy Councillor since 1924 and a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary since 1930. His career has been one of the greatest distinction : Advocate of the Scottish Bar, Examiner in Law at Glasgow University, Lord Advocate of Scotland— he has been Chairman of numerous Royal Commissions, Committees, and Courts of Inquiry ; and is a Trustee of the British Museum, the National Library of Scotland, and King George's Jubilee Trust.
In the autumn of 1932 he gave three broadcast talks on ' The Law of the Land ', and he was last heard on the air in June. 1935, when he spoke on the National Savings movement.