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Charles Erskine

Charles Erskine, Lord Tinwald (1680–1763), Scottish judge, Lord Advocate, and MP


University of Edinburgh Law School

In 1707, the year of the unification of the Kingdoms of Scotland and England into the Kingdom of Great Britain, Queen Anne established the Chair of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations in the University of Edinburgh, to which Charles Erskine (or Areskine) was appointed; this was the formal start of the Faculty of Law.


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Sir Thomas Hope, 1st Baronet

Alexander was cupbearer to Charles I. Of his two daughters who survived infancy, Mary was wife of Sir Charles Erskine of Alva, and Anne married David Erskine, 2nd Lord Cardross.