User:BrownHairedGirl/Robert Blackburn, Lord Blackburn

Robert Francis Leslie Blackburn was a Scottish lawyer, Conservative Party politician, judge.

Blackburn was admitted as an advocate in 1887, and took silk in 1906.

He was a parliamentary candidate twice, both times for the Liberal's safe seat of Forfar. At the by-election in February 1909, he increased to Conservative vote share from 32.5% in 1906 to 38.2%, and at the general election in January 1910 he increased it again to 38.5% However, in a two-way contest, the Liberal majority remained over 20%.

In October 1918 he was appointed as a Senator of the College of Justice, taking the judicial title Lord Blackburn. He succeeded Lord Johnston, who had retired.