Lord Clerk Register - Office Holders

Office Holders

incomplete list

  • William, Bishop of St Andrews
  • Simon de Quincy
  • Nicolas, Clericus to Malcolm IV
  • William de Bosch, Hugo, Galfrid, and Gregory, all served Alexander II
  • 1253: William Capellanus and Alexander de Carrick
  • 1323: Robert de Dunbar
  • John Gray, appointed by Robert II
  • 1426: John Schives, decretorum director
  • 1440: Richard Craig, Vicar of Dundee
  • 1442: George Shoriswood, Rector of Culter
  • 1449: Sir John Methven
  • 1450: John Arouse, Archdeacon of Glasgow
  • 1455: Nicol Otterburn
  • 1466: Fergus McDowall
  • 1471: David Guthrie of that Ilk
  • 1473: John Lang, Rector of Newlands, Glasgow
  • 1477: Alexander Inglis, afterwards Deacon of Dunkeld
  • 1482: Patrick Leith, Canon of Glasgow
  • 1482: Alexander Scot, Rector of Wigton
  • 1488: William Hepburn, Vicar of Linlithgow
  • 1489: Richard Murehead, Deacon of Glasgow
  • 1492: John Fraser, Rector of Restalrig
  • 1497: Walter Drummond, Deacon of Dunblane
  • 1500: Gavin Dunbar, Archdeacon of St Andrews, afterwards Bishop of Aberdeen
  • Sir Stephen Lockhart, appointed by James IV
  • 1531: Sir James Foulis of Colinton
  • 1548: Sir Thomas Marjoribanks of Ratho
  • 1554: James MacGill of Nether Rankeillour, Parson of Flisk
  • 1565: James Balfour of Pittendreich
  • 1567: James MacGill of Nether Rankeillour
  • 1577: Alexander Hay, Lord Easter Kennet (d 1594)
  • 1594-1612: Sir John Skene of Curriehill
  • 1598: James Skeen, conjunct with his father
  • 1612: Sir Thomas Hamilton, afterwards 1st Earl of Haddington
  • 1612: Sir Alexander Hay of Whitburgh, Lord Newton
  • 1616: Sir George Hay of Netherleiffe
  • 1622: Sir John Hamilton of Magdalens, brother to the Earl of Haddington
  • 1632: Sir John Hay, Lord Barra
  • 1641: Sir Alexander Gibson, Lord Durie, younger of Durie
  • 1649: Archibald Johnston, Lord Warriston
  • 1660: Archibald Primrose, Lord Carrington, of Chester (until 1676)
  • c1690: Sir Thomas Burnett, 3rd Baronet of Leys
  • 1696-1702: Charles Douglas, 2nd Earl of Selkirk
  • November 1702 - June 1704: James Murray, Lord Philiphaugh
  • 1704-1705: James Johnston
  • April 1705 - July 1708: James Murray, Lord Philiphaugh (again)
  • 1714: Archibald Campbell, Earl of Ilay, 3rd Duke of Argyll
  • 1716: James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose
  • 1716: Alexander Hume-Campbell, 2nd Earl of Marchmont, 2nd Lord Polwarth
  • 1733: Charles Douglas, 2nd Earl of Selkirk
  • 1739: William Kerr, 3rd Marquess of Lothian
  • 1756: Alexander Hume Campbell
  • 1760: James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton
  • 1768: Lord Frederick Campbell
  • 1816: Archibald Campbell Colquhoun
  • 1821: William Dundas
  • 1841: James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie
  • 1862: Sir William Gibson Craig of Riccarton
  • 1879: George Frederick Boyle, 6th Earl of Glasgow
  • 1890: Douglas Beresford Malise Ronald Graham, 5th Duke of Montrose
  • 1926: John Charles Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 7th Duke of Buccleuch, 9th Duke of Queensberry
  • 1935: Walter John Francis Erskine, 12th Earl of Mar, 14th Earl of Kellie
  • 1944: Sidney Herbert Elphinstone, 16th Baron Elphinstone
  • 1956: Walter John Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 8th Duke of Buccleuch, 10th Duke of Queensberry
  • 1974: Francis David Charteris, 12th Earl of Wemyss and March
  • 2007: James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern

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