sentences:  President of the Scottish Young Lawyers' Association between 1988 and 1997, Governor of the Napier Polytechnic and University between 1989 and 1993, and assessor to the Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh between 1989 and 1997.He chaired the 1992 Orkney child abuse inquiry.Clyde received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1991 
  
  On 1 October 1996, he was appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and additionally was created a life peer with the title Baron Clyde, "of Briglands in Perthshire and Kinross".