Henry Keith, Baron Keith of Kinkel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Scottish lawyer
Date of Birth: 07-Feb-1922
Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 21-Jun-2002
Profession: judge
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Henry Keith, Baron Keith of Kinkel
- Henry Shanks Keith, Baron Keith of Kinkel (7 February 1922 – 21 June 2002) was a Scottish judge. The son of James Keith, Baron Keith of Avonholm, Harry Keith was educated in the Edinburgh Academy, at the Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated with a Master of Arts and the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Law.
- In the Second World War, he commanded the Scots Guards and was mentioned in despatches, reaching the rank of Captain.
- He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1950, and was made a Queen's Counsel in 1962.
- In 1951, he had been called to the English Bar from Gray's Inn, where he became a Bencher in 1976. He appointed as Sheriff of Roxburgh, Berwick and Selkirk in 1970, succeeding David Brand. He was appointed a Senator of the College of Justice with the judicial title Lord Keith in 1971. On 10 January 1977, he was appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and was made additionally a life peer with the title Baron Keith of Kinkel, of Strathummel in the District of Perth and Kinross, following in the footsteps of his father, Lord Keith of Avonholm.
- One year before he had been invested to the Privy Council.
- In 1996, he retired as Lord of Appeal and in 1997, he was awarded the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire.
- It was humorously said within legal circles that wherever there was a negligence case, Lord Keith would always say 'no' to damages. In 1955 he married Alison Brown, now Lady Keith of Kinkel; they had four sons and a daughter, Deborah.
- The family lived at Loch Tummel, near Pitlochry, Perthshire. Lord Keith died in 2002.
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