Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cathcart, David

1383697Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 09 — Cathcart, David1887Thomas Finlayson Henderson

CATHCART, DAVID, Lord Alloway (d. 1829), lord of session, was the son of Edward Cathcart of Greenfield, Ayrshire, and passed advocate at the Scottish bar on 16 July 1785. He was promoted to the bench as an ordinary lord of session on 8 June 1813, on the resignation of Sir William Honyman, bart., the title he assumed being that of Lord Alloway. On the resignation of Lord Hermand, in 1826, he was also appointed a lord of justiciary. He died at his seat, Blairston, near Ayr, on 27 April 1829.

[Haig and Brunton's Senators of the College of Justice.]

T. F. H.

Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.57
N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line

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