Template:Did you know nominations/William Grant, Lord Grant


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The result was: promoted by  Jolly  Ω   Janner  01:13, 11 February 2016 (UTC)

William Grant, Lord Grant

 * ... that in 1972, Scotland's second-most senior judge Lord Grant died in a car crash after drinking, killing two other men and hospitalising a young family?

Note: article relies heavily on subscription-only sources, but the first 4 hook facts are verifiable in open-access refs: Main hook; ALT1; ALT2 ; ALT3. I like ALT4 the best, because none of the newspapers reported it at his death, but the source is subscription-only
 * ALT1:... that in 1960, a political opponent congratulated Scottish Lord Advocate William Grant for his "extreme common sense" in not prosecuting the publishers of Lady Chatterley's Lover?
 * ALT2:... that in 1955, two girls fainted at an election rally in Glasgow for Unionist candidate William Grant?
 * ALT3:... that in 1962, Scottish Lord Advocate William Grant defended the British government against a lawsuit worth over a billion pounds in 2016 money?
 * ALT4:... that William Grant, the 1960s Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland, was the grandson of the founder of the Glenfiddich whisky distillery?
 * Reviewed: Mitre Inn, Chipping Barnet
 * Comment: expanded about 10X from stub. Readable prose size as of 03:27, 13 January: 9654 characters (1606 words); as of 9 January 731 characters (126 words)

5x expanded by BrownHairedGirl (talk) and George Burgess (talk). Nominated by BrownHairedGirl (talk) at 04:04, 13 January 2016 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg Article is solid and well-sourced and there are no obvious policy issues. It has been significantly more than fivefold expanded. All the hooks are present in the article and backed by inline citations which verify the content. No strong preference on hook. HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?  22:40, 10 February 2016 (UTC)