When the chips are down.....

 One of the great Lord Lyons was Sir James Balfour Paul, Lyon from 1890 until 1926. 

Or, a chevron indented sable between two lions rampant in chief, and an escutcheon in base gules. Crest: A lion sejant guardant gules, his dexter paw resting upon an escutcheon as in the arms; 

Sir James's grave in Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh

He presided over several very interesting cases but the Edinburgh Evening News of March 4th 1891 has an even more interesting one when Mr Paul, as he then was, was actually the litigant. The North British Railway Company had contracted to deliver to him a bag of potatoes to the value of 9/- coming  from Crook of Devon in Kinrossshire. A strike by the railwaymen (surely not, ed?) prevented the potatoes arriving in time for Christmas dinner 1890 so Paul sent for the peelers and  sued the Railway in the Edinburgh Sheriff Small Debt Court where a Sheriff Hamilton found in his favour.