page_title: John Cheyne (advocate)
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: John Cheyne (advocate) / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: Tangwick Haa (museum) Apologies for the streaky walls - due to the rain, not poor maintenance!
context_page_description: Sir John Cheyne of Tangwick KC LLD was a 19th/20th century Scottish judge.
context_section_description: He was born on 15 February 1841 at 5 Walker Street in Edinburgh's West End the son of Henry Walker WS. He was christened at Northmavine parish church in Shetland near his father's home estate of Tangwick Haa which was built by his family around 1690.
  By 1851 the family was living at 6 Royal Terrace on Calton Hill.
  He was sent to Trinity College, Oxford to study Law, graduating MA. He passed the Scottish bar as an Advocate in May 1865. He mainly practiced in Dundee. In the 1880s he was living at 7 Airlie Place in Dundee. Airlie Place is a handsome mid-19th century townhouse forming part of a terrace stepping down towards the River Tay. He was at this stage also Sheriff Substitute for Forfarshire.
  From 1891 he was also Procurator for the Church of Scotland and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Advocates.
  He became Sheriff of Ross, Cromarty and Sutherland in 1886, transferring to be Sheriff of Renfrew and Bute in 1889, serving until his death.
  He was knighted by Queen Victoria at Balmoral Castle in 1897.
  He lived his final years at 13 Chester Street in Edinburgh's West End. He was a member of the Kirk Session under Rev Archibald Scott at St George's Church on Charlotte Square.
  He died on 15 January 1907. He is buried in Warriston Cemetery. His simple marble cross stands on the north side of the main central east-west path. The Tangwick estate in Shetland (in which he showed little interest) passed to his younger brother Harry Cheyne.
caption: Tangwick Haa - now a museum
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