Office Holders
Holders of the office are:
- James Crawford DD: 11 Nov 1681
- William Turner DD: 30 Sep 1682
- James Fall: 16 Dec 1682
- Christopher Irving MD: 30 July 1686
- William Dunlop: 31 Jan 1693
- Daniel Campbell: 1 April 1700
- David Crawford jr of Drumsoy: 5 Oct 1704
- David Sympsone: 12 May 1708 - 4 July 1709
Office vacant from 1709 until 1763
- Rev William Robertson DD: 6 Aug 1763
- John Gillies LLD: 15 Jun 1793
- George Brodie: 5 Mar 1836
- John Hill Burton LLD: 29 Aug 1867
- William Forbes Skene DCL LLD: 14 Nov 1881
- David Masson LLD: 3 Mar 1893
- Peter Hume Brown: 4 May 1908
- Sir Robert Sangster Rait CBE MA: 11 Jan 1919
- Robert Kerr Hannay LLD FRSE: 14 July 1930
- Henry William Meikle MA DLitt: 23 Sep 1940
- J. D. Mackie OBE MC LLD: 19 Sep 1958 - 1978
- Gordon Donaldson CBE: 1979 - 1993
- Christopher Smout CBE: 1993 -
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