| Administrative History | Peter Keith (b.1847) was a solicitor and Notary Public in Thurso, as well as Justice of the Peace for Caithness and Honorary Sheriff Substitute for Caithness, Orkney and Shetland. He married Katie Bruce in 1888. Their first child was Christina Keith (b.12 Jan 1889).
David Barrogill Keith was born in Thurso on 1 Mar 1891. He went to school at the Miller Academy until 1908 when he entered Edinburgh University; graduated MA in 1911, LLB in 1913 and qualified as a solicitor in 1914. He also studied painting in Paris and drawing at the Edinburgh College of Art. In 1914 he was commissioned in the Cameronians and served in France in the 10th Battalion 1915-1917, then 1917-1918 in the Judge Advocate's Department. From 1919-1940 he practiced as a solicitor in the family firm in Thurso, then 1940-1945 he was in charge of the J.A.G.'s branch in the north of Scotland. In 1946 he was appointed Sheriff Substitute of Orkney at Kirkwall, where he remained until he retired in 1968. |