# List of provosts of Perth

The is a list of provosts of Perth. Perth is a city in Scotland, and the role of provost is similar to that of a mayor in many other countries.

## History

The Merchant Guild of Perth was chartered in 1210, and the post of provost may have originated at this point. The first holder whose name is known is John Mercer, who served in 1368.
Until 1975, the post was Lord Provost of Perth, and ranked second in precedence after the Lord Provost of Edinburgh. With the reorganisation of local government, it became Provost of Perth and Kinross.

## List of Provosts

    1368: John Mercer
    Laurence Spence
    William Mercer
    Andrew de Martyn
    John de Pitscottie
    1465: Andrew Charteris
    1471: Robert Donyng
    Andrew de Martyn
    Richard de Strathearn
    Alexander Bunch
    Thomas Peebles
    Robert Mercer
    Walter Ireland
    Patrick Wells
    1500: Patrick Wells
    Robert Mercer
    Andrew Charteris
    John Charteris
    Alexander Tyre, of Busbie
    Andrew Bunch
    1504: Alexander Blair
    1509: John Donyng
    1521: Patrick Charteris
    1523: Alexander M'Breck
    William, Lord Ruthven
    Oliver Maxton
    John Christison
    William Patullo
    1544: Patrick Ruthven
    1584: Patrick, Master of Ruthven
    Sir William Murray, of Tullibardine
    William, Earl of Gowrie
    John, Earl of Montrose
    John, Earl of Atholl
    James Hepburn
    James, Earl of Gowrie
    John, Earl of Gowrie
    1600: David Murray, afterwards Lord Scone
    James Adamson
    Viscount Stormont
    Alexander Peebles
    Robert Arnot
    Andrew Gray
    Andrew Grant
    Andrew Butter
    John Paterson
    1664: Sir Patrick Threipland
    1666: George Threipland
    Archibald Christie
    Andrew Jackson
    Patrick Hay
    Robert Lauder
    John Glas
    Robert Smyth
    George Oliphant
    James Cree
    David Murray
    Patrick Davidson
    1700: George Oliphant
    Patrick Davidson
    1704: Alexander Robertson
    1706: James Cree
    James Brown
    William Austen
    Robert Robertson
    Patrick Hay
    William Ferguson
    Colin Brown
    Patrick Crie
    John Robertson
    William Stuart
    William Gray
    John Stuart
    Alexander Simpson
    George Fechney
    1784: Thomas Marshall
    1785: Thomas Marshall
    William Alison
    John Caw
    Alexander Fechney
    James Ramsay
    Thomas Black
    1800: Thomas Hay Marshall
    1801: Thomas Hay Marshall
    1802: John Caw
    1803: John Caw
    1804: Thomas Hay Marshall
    1805: Thomas Hay Marshall
    1806: John Caw
    1807: John Caw
    1808: Laurence Robertson
    1809: Laurence Robertson
    1810: Robert Ross
    1811: Robert Ross
    1812: Laurence Robertson
    1813: Laurence Robertson
    1814: Robert Ross
    1815: Robert Ross
    1816: Laurence Robertson
    1817: Laurence Robertson
    1818: David Morison
    1819: David Morison
    1820: Robert Ross
    1821: Robert Ross
    1822: Patrick Gilbert Stewart
    1823: Patrick Gilbert Stewart
    1824: Robert Ross
    1825: Robert Ross
    1825: Patrick Gilbert Stewart
    1826: Patrick Gilbert Stewart
    1827: Robert Ross
    1828: Robert Ross
    1829: Patrick Gilbert Stewart
    1830: Patrick Gilbert Stewart
    1839: David Greig
    1841: David Greig
    1842: Charles Graham Sidney
    1862: Sir David Ross
    1867: John Pullar
    1873: Andrew Graham
    1877: Thomas Richardson
    1880: Kirkwood Hewat
    1890: George Wilson
    1893: John Dewar
    1899: David Macgregor
    1902: Thomas Love
    1909: Duncan Macnab
    1912: Charles Scott
    1919: Archibald Ure Wotherspoon
    1922: John Dewar
    1924: Thomas Dempster
    1932: Thomas Hunter
    1935: Robert Nimmo
    1945: John Ure Primrose
    1954: John Buchan
    John T. Young
    1963: Robert Ritchie
    1966: David Kinnear Thomson
    1972: Alexander Cross
    1975: Norman Renfrew
    John Mathieson
    1988: Alexander Murray
    1992: Jean McCormack
    John Cullivan
    1999: Mike O'Malley
    2003: Bob Scott
    2007: John Hulbert
    2012: Liz Grant
    2017: Dennis Melloy
    2022: Xander McDade