Lord David Pinkerton Fleming Country Life Magazine Portrait September 18 1926

Lord David Pinkerton Fleming Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, September 18 1926. LX No. 1548

The featured frontispiece this week is a portrait of Lord Fleming in his robes as a Scottish judge. Prior to his appointment, he served as Solicitor-General for Scotland in successive Conservative governments and had a distinguished career in both law and politics.

David Pinkerton Fleming, known judicially as Lord Fleming, was a prominent Scottish legal and political figure.

• Solicitor-General for Scotland: He held the office from 1922 to 1923 and again from 1924 to 1926 under Unionist governments.
• Member of Parliament: He served as Unionist MP for Dunbartonshire from 1924 until his appointment to the bench.
• Scottish Judge: He was appointed a Senator of the College of Justice in December 1925, taking the judicial title Lord Fleming.
• The Fleming Report (1944): Later in his career, he chaired the committee responsible for the influential Fleming Report, which helped shape the Education Act of 1944.
• Family: He married Beatrice Joan Swan (1880–1965) on September 4, 1913, in North Berwick. They had at least one daughter, Anne Fleming, born around 1914.

This is an authentic original page from Country Life magazine, part of the iconic series often affectionately referred to as the “Girls in Pearls” portraits — elegant society images that captured a distinctive era of British publishing and portraiture.

Size: Approximately 13.75 x 9 inches (35 x 23 cm)

Condition: Very good for its age. As with all vintage magazine pages, light signs of handling or minor age-related blemishes may be present. Please review the large photo carefully for full condition details.

This original Country Life Magazine frontispiece portrait forms part of The Old Map Shop’s curated archive of society portraits published between 1897 and 2026.