Wigtownshire - Lord Lieutenant For Wigtownshire

Lord Lieutenant For Wigtownshire

This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Wigtown (Wigtownshire), a county in the Dumfries and Galloway council area of south-west Scotland.

The current title of the Lord Lieutenant is Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant for Wigtown, or the Lord Lieutenant for the Area of Wigtown.

The area of Wigtown, the name of the relevant lieutenancy area of the Lord Lieutenant, encompasses not only the town of Wigtown, but the historic county or Wigtownshire. As such, the office continues to be referred to as the "Lord Lieutenant of Wigtownshire".

Between 1794 and 1975, the official title of the office was His or Her Majesty's Lieutenant in the County of Wigtown. From 1975, the title became Lord-Lieutenant in Dumfries and Galloway Region (District of Wigtown), altering in 1996 to its present form "Her Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant for Wigtown" (Wigtownshire).

A 2007 map of the Wards in the Lieutenancy area of Wigtownshire in Dumfries and Galloway (Council area) is at http://gretnaonline.net/index.aspx?articleid=1249

A 2001 map of Local Plan Areas in the Lieutenancy area of Wigtownshire in Dumfries & Galloway (Council area) is at http://gretnaonline.net/index.aspx?articleid=1249