Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Duncan McNeill, Baron Colonsay and Oronsay (1793-1874), Judge

Scottish judge; solicitor-general for Scotland, 1834-5, 41-2; MP for Argyllshire, 1843-51; lord advocate, 1842-6; lord justice-general, 1857-67; created a peer, 1867.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.