List of Rectors
- 1859 William Ewart Gladstone, M.P.
- 1865 Thomas Carlyle
- 1868 Sir James Moncreiff, 1st Bt.
- 1871 Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Bt., M.P.
- 1874 The 15th Earl of Derby
- 1877 The Marquess of Hartington, M.P.
- 1880 The 5th Earl of Rosebery
- 1883 Sir Stafford Northcote, 8th Bt., M.P. (from 1885 Earl of Iddesleigh)
- 1887 The 9th Marquess of Lothian
- 1890 George Goschen, M.P.
- 1893 Baron Robertson
- 1896 The 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh
- 1899 The 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
- 1902 Sir Robert Finlay, M.P.
- 1905 Richard Haldane, M.P.
- 1908 George Wyndham, M.P.
- 1911 The 4th Earl of Minto
- 1914 Field Marshal The 1st Earl Kitchener
- 1917 Admiral Sir David Beatty (promoted Admiral of the Fleet in May 1919 and created The 1st Earl Beatty in Oct. 1919).
- 1920 David Lloyd George, M.P.
- 1923 Stanley Baldwin, M.P.
- 1926 Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Bt., M.P.
- 1929 Winston Churchill, M.P.
- 1932 General Sir Ian Hamilton
- 1935 Field Marshal The 1st Viscount Allenby
- 1936 Sir Herbert J.C. Grierson
- 1939 Sir J. Donald Pollock
- 1945 Admiral of the Fleet The 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope
- 1948 Alastair Sim
- 1951 Sir Alexander Fleming
- 1954 Sir Sydney A. Smith
- 1957 James Robertson Justice
- 1960 Jo Grimond, M.P.
- 1963 James Robertson Justice
- 1966 Malcolm Muggeridge
- 1969 Kenneth Allsop
- 1972 Jonathon W.G. Wills
- 1973 Gordon Brown
- 1976 Magnús Magnússon
- 1979 Fr. Anthony Ross
- 1982 David Steel, M.P.
- 1985 Archie Macpherson
- 1988 Muriel Gray
- 1991 Donnie Munro
- 1994 Malcolm Macleod
- 1997 John Mark Colquhoun
- 2000 Robin Harper, M.S.P.
- 2003 Sir Tam Dalyell, 11th Bt., M.P.
- 2006 Mark Ballard, M.S.P.
- 2009 Iain Macwhirter
- 2012 Peter McColl
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