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. Before his appointment Lord Fleming held the office of Solicitor-General for Scotland in the last and present Conservative Governments. Lord Fleming had a distinguished career in both law and politics in Scotland.

• Solicitor-General for Scotland: He served in this role twice, from 1922 to 1923 and again from 1924 to 1926, under Conservative (Unionist) governments.
• Member of Parliament: He was the Unionist MP for Dunbartonshire from 1924 until his appointment to the bench in 1926.
• Scottish Judge: He was appointed as a Senator of the College of Justice in December 1925, taking the judicial title "Lord Fleming".
• The Fleming Report (1944): Late in his career, he chaired a notable committee that produced the "Fleming Report," which influenced the Education Act of 1944 and defined the relationship between state funding and public schools
• He married Beatrice Joan Swan (1880–1965) on September 4, 1913, in North Berwick. Beatrice was the daughter of John Swan, who was a well-known livestock agent in Edinburgh. David Pinkerton Fleming (Lord Fleming) and his wife, Beatrice Joan Swan, had at least one child.
• Anne Fleming: She was born around 1914. Historical records and newspaper archives from the time mention her as their daughter

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.