| 词条 | John Wheatley, Baron Wheatley |
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John Thomas Wheatley, Baron Wheatley {{post-nominals|country=GBR|PC|KC}} (17 January 1908 – 28 July 1988) was a Scottish Labour politician and judge. BiographyWheatley was born on 17 January 1908 in Shettleston, Glasgow, the third and youngest child of Janet (1877–1951), a pupil teacher and daughter of Peter Murphy, a labourer from Belfast, and Patrick Wheatley (1875–1937), sometime miner and later publisher, who was born in County Waterford. He was educated at St. Aloysius' College, Glasgow, Mount St Mary's College near Sheffield, and the University of Glasgow. He was admitted as an advocate in 1932.[1] He served in the Royal Artillery and the Judge Advocate Generals' Branch during World War II. As an advocate, he appeared before the Court of Session in his military uniform.[1] As a young man he played football for Shettleston F.C..[2] He was an unsuccessful parliamentary candidate for Bute and North Ayrshire in 1945 and for Glasgow Bridgeton in 1946, where he was defeated by the Independent Labour Party candidate. He was elected for Edinburgh East at a by-election in November 1947 and sat for the constituency until 1954.[1] During his time in the Commons, he never made a Maiden Speech.[3] He was Solicitor General for Scotland from March to October 1947,[4] when he was appointed Lord Advocate.[5] He was appointed a King's Counsel and a Privy Counsellor in 1947. One of his most significant achievements as a politician was the establishment of the legal aid scheme in Scotland. He was appointed to the bench, with the judicial title Lord Wheatley. In 1966 he was appointed chairman of the Royal Commission on Local Government in Scotland.[6] The resulting "Wheatley Report", published in 1969, led to the eventual introduction a new system of Scottish local authorities.[7] On 28 July 1970 he was created a life peer, as Baron Wheatley, of Shettleston in the County of the City of Glasgow.[8] In December 1972 he was appointed to succeed Lord Grant as Lord Justice Clerk,[9] a post he held until 1985. Following the Ibrox disaster in 1971, Wheatley was appointed by the government to conduct an inquiry into safety at sports grounds. His 1972 report became the basis for the Green Guide. Wheatley was a lifelong Roman Catholic. He was also known for hard sentencing of crimes involving sex. While Lord Justice-Clerk (an appeal judge), he exercised his right to sit as a trial judge in criminal cases, and handed out long sentences for such crimes. PosthumousIt was Wheatley's memorial service in 1988 which was attended by his old friend Lord Mackay of Clashfern, at the time Lord Chancellor. As a member of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland, which strongly disapproves of Roman Catholicism, Mackay was disciplined by his church for having attended the memorial service.[1] FamilyHis uncle was the Shettleston MP John Wheatley. Wheatley's son-in-law was the late Tam Dalyell, former father of the House of Commons, who married Wheatley's daughter, Kathleen, in 1963. References
1. ^1 2 3 {{Cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-40379|title=Wheatley, John Thomas, Baron Wheatley (1908-1988), politician and judge|last=Ross|first=Donald M.|date=23 September 2004|website=www.oxforddnb.com|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/40379|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2019-01-27}} 2. ^{{Cite news|title=Wheatley heads safety inquiry|pages=18 | newspaper = Glasgow Herald|location=Glasgow|date=5 February 1971|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19710205&printsec=frontpage&hl=en|postscript="."}} 3. ^{{cite web|last1=House of Commons Library|title=Maiden Speeches in the House of Commons since 1918|url=http://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/SN04588|website=UK Parliament|accessdate=10 February 2017}} 4. ^{{London Gazette | issue = 16424 | date = 28 March 1947 |page=123 | city = e }} 5. ^{{London Gazette | issue = 16481 | date = 14 October 1947 |page=427 | city = Edinburgh }} 6. ^{{cite news|first=|last=|title=Tasks set for new planners of local government. Members of royal commissions named.|work=The Times|page=14|date=25 May 1966}} 7. ^{{cite journal|last=Turnock|first=David|authorlink=|year=1970|title=The Wheatley Report: Local Government in Scotland|journal=Area|volume=2|issue=2|pages=10–12|publisher=Blackwell Publishing on behalf of The Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers|jstor=20000437 }} 8. ^{{London Gazette |issue=45161 |date=31 July 1970 |page=8495}} 9. ^{{London Gazette | issue = 19165 | date = 22 December 1972 |page=1157 | city = Edinburgh }} External links
| title = Member of Parliament for Edinburgh East | years = 1947–1954 | before = George Thomson | after = George Willis }}{{s-legal}}{{succession box | title=Solicitor General for Scotland | before=Daniel Blades| after=Douglas Johnston | years=1947}}{{succession box | title=Lord Advocate | before=George Thomson| after=James Clyde | years=1947–1951}}{{succession box | title=Lord Justice Clerk | before=William Grant| after=Lord Ross | years=1972–1985}}{{s-end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Wheatley, John Thomas}} 21 : 1908 births|1988 deaths|Politicians from Glasgow|Place of death missing|Solicitors General for Scotland|Senators of the College of Justice|Scottish Roman Catholics|Royal Artillery officers|Alumni of the University of Glasgow|Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom|Life peers|Scottish Labour Party MPs|Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Edinburgh constituencies|UK MPs 1945–50|UK MPs 1950–51|UK MPs 1951–55|British Army personnel of World War II|People educated at St Aloysius' College, Glasgow|Lord Advocates|Scottish Queen's Counsel|Queen's Counsel 1901–2000 |
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