List of Governors of The Bank of Scotland
- John Holland 1696-1697
- David Melville, 3rd Earl of Leven 1697-1728
- Alexander Hume, 2nd Earl of Marchmont 1728-1740
- Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun 1740-1742
- Colonel John Stratton 1742
- John Hay, 4th Marquess of Tweeddale 1742-1762
- Hugh Hume, 3rd Earl of Marchmont 1763-1790
- Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville 1790-1811
- Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville 1812-1851
- James Broun Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie 1851-1860
- John Campbell, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane 1861-1862
- George Hamilton-Baillie, 11th Earl of Haddington 1863-1870
- John Hamilton Dalrymple, 10th Earl of Stair 1870-1903
- Alexander Hugh Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh 1904-1921
- William John Mure 1921-1924
- Sidney Herbert, 16th Lord Elphinstone 1924-1955
- Sir John Craig 1955-1957
- Steven Bilsland, 1st Baron Bilsland 1957-1966
- Henry Alexander Hepburne-Scott, 10th Lord Polwarth 1966-1972
- Ronald John Bilsland Colville, 2nd Baron Clydesmuir 1972-1981
- Sir Thomas Neilson Risk 1981-1991
- Sir David Bruce Pattullo 1991-1998
- Sir Matthew Alistair Grant 1998-1999
- Sir John Shaw 1999-2001
- Sir Peter Burt 2001-2003
- George Mitchell 2003-2006
- Dennis Stevenson, Baron Stevenson of Coddenham 2006- 2007
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