Alistair Hamilton

Alexander Macdonald "Alistair" Hamilton CBE JP (11 May 1925 – 25 May 2012) was president of the Law Society of Scotland[1] and vice-chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland.[2]

Not to be confused with Alastair Hamilton.

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Born in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland on 11 May 1925, Alexander Macdonald Hamilton was educated at the Hamilton Academy.

From Hamilton Academy, Hamilton graduated MA, and LLB from the University of Glasgow. A senior partner and latterly consultant with the large Glasgow firm of solicitors, McGrigor Donald, Hamilton was also vice-chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group.

A member of council and convener of the diligence committee of the Law Society of Scotland, Hamilton was to become president of the society, 1977–78. He was also a member of the Court House Committee of the Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow.[3]

Hamilton was appointed JP and, in 1978, CBE.[1]

He was also committed to the Scout movement for most of his life, especially as Scoutmaster of the 150th Glasgow Troop attached to Cambuslang Old Parish Church, where he was an elder for over fifty years.

Alistair Hamilton died in 2012.[4]

References
  1. London Gazette Supplement 30 December 1978 Gazetted CBE’s - Alexander Macdonald Hamilton, past President, The Law Society of Scotland Retrieved 7 September 2011
  2. Royal Bank of Scotland Investors Prospectus 1993, List of Directors, Alexander Macdonald Hamilton CBE JP, Vice-chairman Archived 23 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 7 September 2011
  3. Frost’s Scottish Who’s Who – Alexander Hamilton Archived 20 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 28 October 2010
  4. Alistair Hamilton
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