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EDWARD THEODORE SALVESEN brought to his profession and to his hobbies the vigour and enthusiasm bequeathed him by his Norwegian forebears. His profession carried him, by way of the University of Edinburgh, the Scots Bar and a sheriffdom, to a judgeship in the Court of Session of Scotland. His hobbies and his public interests were too many to mention, but he accomplished much for the veterans of the War of 1914-18 (in which his three sons were killed), he helped to reform the divorce law of Scotland, and he was a strong advocate of public-house reform. But his lasting memorial is the Scottish Zoological Park.
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RITCHIE, J. The Right Hon. Lord Salvesen, P.C., K.C. Nature 149, 296–297 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149296b0
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