Scope and Contents Hugh Macmillan was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1897 and took silk in 1912. In 1924 he became non-political Lord Advocate in the first Labour government of Ramsay Macdonald, and was a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, 1930-1939, 1941-1947, and Minister of Information, 1939-1940. His talents for chairmanship resulted in appointments to the chair of several important committees and organisations of which the best known was the 'Macmillan Committee', the Treasury Committee on Finance and...