List of Keepers of The Great Seal of Scotland Since The Union
- 1708: Hugh Campbell, 3rd Earl of Loudoun
- 1713: James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater, 1st Earl of Seafield
- 1714: William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale
- 1716: James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose
- 1733: Archibald Campbell, 1st Earl of Islay
- 1761: Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry, 2nd Duke of Dover
- 1763: James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl
- 1764: Hugh Hume-Campbell, 3rd Earl of Marchmont
- 1794: Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon
- 1806: James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale
- 1807: Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon
- 1827: George William Campbell, 6th Duke of Argyll
- 1828: George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon
- 1830: George William Campbell, 6th Duke of Argyll
- 1840: John Hamilton Dalrymple, 8th Earl of Stair
- 1841: John Douglas Edward Henry Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll
- 1846: John Hamilton Dalrymple, 8th Earl of Stair
- 1852: Dunbar James Douglas, 6th Earl of Selkirk
- 1853: Cospatrick Alexander Home, 11th Earl of Home
- 1858: Dunbar James Douglas, 6th Earl of Selkirk
The following are Keepers of the Great Seal, who served as Secretary for Scotland (1885–1926).
- 1885: Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond
- 1886: George Otto Trevelyan
- 1886: John William Ramsay, 13th Earl of Dalhousie
- 1886: Arthur Balfour
- 1887: Schomberg Henry Kerr, 9th Marquess of Lothian
- 1892: George Otto Trevelyan
- 1895: Alexander Hugh Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh
- 1903: Andrew Murray, 1st Viscount Dunedin
- 1905: John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow
- 1905: John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland
- 1912: Thomas McKinnon Wood
- 1916: Harold Tennant
- 1916: Robert Munro, 1st Baron Alness
- 1922: Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar
- 1924: William Adamson
- 1926: Sir John Gilmour
The following are Keepers of the Great Seal, who served as Secretary of State for Scotland (1926–1999).
- 1926: Sir John Gilmour
- 1929: William Adamson
- 1931: Sir Archibald Sinclair
- 1932: Sir Godfrey Collins
- 1936: Walter Elliot
- 1938: John Colville
- 1940: Ernest Brown
- 1941: Thomas Johnston
- 1945: Harry Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery
- 1945: Joseph Westwood
- 1947: Arthur Woodburn
- 1950: Hector McNeil
- 1951: James Stuart
- 1957: John Maclay
- 1962: Michael Noble
- 1964: William Ross
- 1970: Gordon Campbell
- 1974: William Ross
- 1976: Bruce Millan
- 1979: George Younger
- 1986: Malcolm Rifkind
- 1990: Ian Lang
- 1995: Michael Forsyth
- 1997: Donald Dewar
The office of the Keeper of the Great Seal was transferred on 6 May 1999, to the First Minister, in accordance to the terms of section 45(7) of the Scotland Act 1998.
- 1999: Donald Dewar
- 2000: Henry McLeish
- 2001: Jack McConnell
- 2007: Alex Salmond
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