Office Holders
- 1763: John Jardine (1716-1766)
- 1767: Robert Hamilton
- 1787: George Hill
- 1791: Archibald Davison
- 1803: William Laurence Brown
- 1830: George Cook
- 1845: William Muir (1787-1869)
- 1869: Norman Macleod (1812-1872)
- 1872: John Macleod
- 1882: John Tulloch
- 1886: James Cameron Lees (1834-1913)
- 1910-1926: Andrew Wallace Williamson (1856-1926)
- 1926-1969: Charles Laing Warr (1892-1969)
- 1969-1974: Dr Henry Charles Whitley (1906-1976)
- 1974-1989: Prof John McIntyre (1916-2005)
- 1989-present: Gilleasbuig Iain Macmillan
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