Nairn/[Nairne], William ♂

Education

Student United College 1745-1747. (Secondar).

Birth/childhood

Baptised 21.5.1731 at Dundee son of Sir William Nairne of Dunsinnan and Emilia Graham of Fintry.

Career

Admitted advocate in 1755. Sheriff of Perthshire 1782. Lord of Session 1786 as Lord Dunsinnane. On death of his nephew succeeded to baronetcy and bought Dunsinnane. [Lawyer, landowner, baronet]

Published on legal matters.

Death

Died at Dunsinnane House 20.3.1811.

Sources

• F.J. Grant, The Faculty of Advocates in Scotland 1532-1943 (Edinburgh, 1944) (SRS145)
• DNB