Keith Stewart QC - new life peer

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Keith Douglas Stewart QC - the new Advocate-General for Scotland - is to be made a life peer.

From the (Scottish) Herald  15 October 2020:

An official announcement from Downing Street released today read: "The Queen has been pleased to approve the appointment of Keith Stewart QC as Advocate General for Scotland.

"Her Majesty has also been pleased to signify Her intention of conferring a peerage of the United Kingdom for Life on Mr Stewart."

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From the Edinburgh Gazette 10 November 2020:

Crown Office

THE QUEEN has been pleased by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm dated 6 November 2020 to confer the dignity of a Barony of the United Kingdom for life upon the following:

In the forenoon

[see post on Dissolution Honours for peerage conferred on Sir Edward Julian Udny-Lister]

In the afternoon

Keith Douglas Stewart, by the name, style and title of BARON STEWART OF DIRLETON, of Dirleton in the County of East Lothian.