William Prosser, Lord Prosser
William David Prosser, Lord Prosser, PC was a Scottish judge and an advocate for the arts in Edinburgh.
Personal life and education
He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy where he was a senior Ephor. Prosser read classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he finished with a double first, and then read law at University of Edinburgh. For his National Service, he was commissioned into the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and served in British Guyana.Prosser married Vanessa Lindsay in 1964. They had two sons and two daughters. Prosser died in March 2015, in Edinburgh, at the age of 80.
Legal career
Prosser became an advocate in 1962, and served as Standing Junior Counsel in Scotland for the Board of Inland Revenue in 1974, and served as Vice Dean and then Dean of the Faculty of Advocates. In 1986, he became a Court of Session judge and served until his retirement in 2001.Prosser's legal work also included serving on the Scottish Committee of the Council on Tribunals, as trustee for the Franco-British Council, and as President of the Franco-British Lawyers’ Society. He helped the University of the Highlands and Islands gain university status and served on its court.