George Craig of Galashiels

The Life and Work of a Nineteenth Century Lawyer

John Finlay

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Edinburgh University Press
25 August 2023

Legal history; Company, commercial & competition law; Financial law

What was it like to practise as a lawyer and bank agent in a rural Scottish community on the cusp of modernity? George Craig was Sir Walter Scott's local banker, a writer, insurance agent, election agent and baron bailie of Galashiels. Based on thousands of recently discovered letters, this is the first study of a provincial nineteenth-century Scots lawyer and the community he served.

Craig's many correspondents, from manufacturers, bankers, lawyers and law agents in London, Dublin, Jamaica and the US to weavers, tenant farmers and town clerks reflect Borders life in all its intensity and his letters paint a detailed picture of everyday existence. His story affords a fascinating glimpse of legal practice and estate management across the Borders, during a time of economic and political change, as Galashiels grew from a village into an important manufacturing centre.

By: John Finlay
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 354g
ISBN: 9781399514835
ISBN 10: 1399514830
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 25 August 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

John Finlay is Professor of Scots Law at the University of Glasgow. He is author of: Men of Law in Pre-Reformation Scotland (Tuckwell Press, 2000), contributor to The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, volume 1 (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming) and author of 'Women and legal representation in early sixteenth-century Scotland' in Women in Scotland 1100 1750 (Tuckwell Press, 1999). He has published numerous papers on Scottish legal history in journals such as the Scottish Historical Review, Edinburgh Law Review and the Juridical Review.

Reviews for George Craig of Galashiels: The Life and Work of a Nineteenth Century Lawyer

More than providing an insight into the day-to-day workings of Craig's business, reflected through Craig's own experiences, we learn about Craig's clients, their lives, and the transformation of their respective communities. The glimpses that we get of these other lives are often frustratingly brief, little more than vignettes, yet a picture of the wider community emerges, and Finlay shows how Craig, and men of local-standing like him, touched and influenced so many lives. --Charles Fletcher ""Edinburgh Law Review""