GUTHRIE, James Dalglish KC 1950-2022

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 7 Jan 2023: GUTHRIE James Dalglish, KC, died peacefully on 26th December 2022. At his request, a private cremation followed by a memorial in the spring…

He was s of Maj Ronald Dalglish GUTHRIE 1909-82 scion of that Scots gentry family of Craigie (and f of the LP Baron GUTHRIE OF CRAIGIEBANK GCB LVO OBE b 1938) and Nina 1913-87 d of George Ernest LLEWELYN of Bryngarw, Aberkenfig, Glam. He m 1981 Lucille Gay b 1952 reg Q2 Dorset d of Nigel Wyndham H PAGE-ROBERTS 1921-2002 by his 1948 m reg Q2 London to Sylvia M HARWOOD, and had a son and a dau.

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Obit in Daily Telegraph 31 January 2023 -  James Guthrie, impressive barrister whose work in the Privy Council included a string of landmark cases – obituary (telegraph.co.uk)

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James Guthrie, impressive barrister whose work in the Privy Council included a string of landmark cases – obituary

His practice took him to Caribbean and Commonwealth territories and he frequently represented prisoners facing execution on a pro bono basis

James Guthrie, who has died aged 72, was one of the outstanding advocates of his generation and among the busiest and most authoritative practitioners in the Privy Council, undertaking appeals across the full spectrum of the Judicial Committee’s jurisdiction.

Calm, incisive and magisterial in court, he was also regarded as one of the more good-looking and debonair figures at the Bar, the inspiration for Antonia Fraser’s fictional hero Guthrie Carlisle in her Jemima Shore novels, that were begun while Guthrie was staying with the author in Scotland as a young man in the 1970s and later became a popular TV series.

James Dalglish Guthrie was born in London on February 21 1950, the son of Ronald Dalglish Guthrie, a successful businessman, and the younger brother (by 12 years) of the future Field Marshal Lord Guthrie.

Growing up in Knightsbridge, he was a year below Prince Charles at Hill House School, before going on to board at Mowden prep school in Sussex and then Harrow. He read Modern History at Worcester College, Oxford, a year of which was spent studying Renaissance art in Perugia, engendering a lifelong love of Italy.

As a handsome “deb’s delight”, in 1969 Guthrie was among the first group of male models at the Berkeley Dress Show, one of the institutions of the Season.

On his graduation, his father was keen for him to follow him into the City. James tried this briefly and unenthusiastically before falling back on reading for the Bar as a means of placating his father, and was as surprised as anyone when the law became his career.

Called to the Bar by Inner Temple in 1975, he joined the chambers of Sir Godfray Le Quesne, who developed the set’s expertise in Privy Council work and was one of the last to uphold the tradition of wearing a black jacket, pinstripe trousers and homburg when going about the Temple....

In one of Guthrie’s later well-publicised cases as counsel, in 2016, he acted for the 74-year-old accountant Murray Pringle in his claim to the Scottish baronetcy of Stichill, originally granted by Charles II to his ancestor Robert Pringle and “male heirs of his body” in 1683.....

James Guthrie married, in 1981, Lu Page-Roberts, a calligrapher, who survives him with their daughter and son.

James Guthrie, born February 21 1950, died December 26 2022