Heavyweights from across the political spectrum attended a memorial service for Lord Fraser of Carmyllie on Friday.
Lord Peter Lovat Fraser, a lawyer and Scottish Conservative politician, died on June 22, aged 68.
Family, friends, colleagues and one-time political opponents including Sir Malcolm Rifkind, Sir Menzies Campbell and Lord George Foulkes attended the service of thanksgiving at Dundee Parish Church (St Mary’s).
Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party Ruth Davidson paid tribute.
“Peter’s sudden death at home in his beloved Angus shocked many,” she said. “Today’s service of thanksgiving will pay tribute to an intelligent, incisive, articulate and passionate man who cared deeply for his family.
“These are qualities which eased Peter’s rise to the very top of the Scottish legal profession and had seen him serve for many years in parliament and in Government.
“His tenacity, good humour and warmth will be sorely missed by family, friends and colleagues.”
Speakers at the service included his son Jamie Fraser, the Rt Hon the Lord Cameron of Lochbroom and former Conservative Party chairman the Most Hon the Marquess of Lothian Michael Ancram.
Elected as MP for South Angus in 1979, Lord Fraser was appointed Lord Advocate of Scotland by Margaret Thatcher.
He was the youngest person to hold the position since Henry Dundas in 1775.
In that role he spearheaded the investigation into the Lockerbie bombing, drawing up an indictment in 1991 that would eventually lead to the conviction of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi.
In 2003 Lord Fraser chaired the inquiry into the excessive cost of constructing the Holyrood parliament building.
Speaking of that inquiry, he famously remarked: “The ancient walls of the Canongate echoed only to the cry of ‘It wisnae me’.”