His pictures, the ?? Sale of Circassian Captives to
a Turkish Bashaw,? purchased by the Earl of
Wemyss and March, and the Jewish Family in
Poland making merry before a Wedding,? were
among the first of his works that laid the foundation
of his future fame. His ?Murder of Archbishop
Sharp,? and other works are too well-known
to be referred to here; but the ?Battle of
Bannockburn,? the unfinished work of his old
THE RIGHT HON. CHARLES HOPE, COMMANDING THE EDINBURGH VOLUNTEERS. (A/?W Kay.)
able lawyer and brilliant pleader. After bring
junior counsel for the Crown, he was Sheriff of
Perth for ten years after 1824, and twice Solicitor-
General for Scotland before 1842. From 1842 to
1846 he was Lord Advocate. He was chosen
Dean of Faculty in November, 1843, and annually
thereafter, till raised to :he bench as a Lord bf
Session and Justiciary in 1851, by the temtorial
title of Lord Colonsay. In the following
age, has never been engraved, nor is it likely to
be so. Full of years and honour, he died on the
23rd of February, 1850, aged sixty-nine, attended
and soothed to the last by the tenderness and
affection of an orphan niece.
The house opposite, No. 73, was for some fifty
years the residence of Duncan McNeill, advocate,
and latterly a peer under the title of Baron Colonsay.
The son of John McNeill of Colonsay (one of
the Hebrides, at the extremity of Islay), by the
eldest daughter of Duncan McNeill of Dunmore,
Argyleshire, he was born in the bleak and lonely
isle of Colonsay in 1793, and after being educated
at the Universities of St. Andrews and Edinburgh,
he was called to the Scottish Bar in 1816, and
very soon distinguished himself as a sound and
year he was appointed Lord Justice-General and
President of the Court, and was created a peer
of Britain on retiring in 1867. He was a Deputy-
Lieutenant of Edinburgh in 1854, and of Argyleshire
in 1848, and was a member of the Lower
House from 1843 to 1851. He died in February,
1874, when the title became extinct.
In the same street, in Nos. 24 and 25 respectively,
lived two other legal men of local note:
Lord Kinloch, a senator, whose name was William
Penny, called to the bar in 1824 and to the
bench in 1858 ; and W. B. D. D. Tumbull,
advocate, and latterly of Lincoln?s Inn,
barrister-at-law. He was called to the Bar in
~832, together with Henry Glassford Bell and
Thomas Mackenzie, afterwards Solicitor-Genera
