Office Holders
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- 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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