from 1929. He chaired in 1924 the Royal Commission on Lunacy and Mental Health, in 1929 the Committee on Finance and Industry, and in 1932 the Committee on Income Tax Codification. On 3 February 1930, he was appointed to replace Lord Sumner as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, and was simultaneously created a life peer as Baron Macmillan of Aberfeldy in the County of Perth, one of few men to have been appointed a judge in the House of Lords straight from the Bar. Macmillan sat as a Law Lord until 1947 except for a brief period at the outbreak of Second World War when he was Minister of Information. However he came in for much criticism in this role and was soon replaced. The Ministry of Information was located in the Senate House, University of London, and the Macmillan Hall there is named after him. Macmillan produced some 152 judgments in the House of Lords, and some 77 in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. He held a number of chairmanships, including the Committee on Finance and Industry in 1929–31, the Canadian Royal Commission on Banking and Currency in 1933, the Pilgrim Trust from 1935 to 1952, the Political Honours Committee from 1935 to 1952, the Court of the University of London from 1929 to 1943, and the BBC Advisory Council from 1936 to 1946. He was a member of the Wytham Abbey Trust, founded by Colonel Raymond ffennell. He was elected Trustee of the British Museum, and was in 1934 principal proponent and founder of the Stair Society, which was designed "to encourage the study and advance the knowledge of the history of Scots Law by the publication of original documents and by the reprinting and editing of works of sufficient rarity or importance." Macmillan led, over the course of a decade to 7 August 1925, the effort to create the National Library of Scotland; the Committee which he chaired was noticed by Alexander Grant, head of McVitie and Price biscuit makers, who donated the bulk of the endowment This happy event culminated with the passage at Westminster of the National Library of Scotland Act 1925. He provided the 1934 Rede Lecture at Cambridge, the 1934 Maudsley Lecture, the 1935 Henry Sidgwick Memorial Lecture, and in 1936 a Broadcast National Lecture. These were bound as Law and Other Things. He was appointed in 1941 to the