Laird Chancellor o Scotland

The **Laird Chancellor o Scotland** wis a Great Officer o State in pre-Union Scotland.

## Leet o Laird Chancellors o Scotland

### David I
* 1124-1126: John Capellanus
* 1126-1143: Herbert o Selkirk
* bef.1143-1145:  Edward, Bishop o Aiberdeen
* c.1147–c.1150:  William Comyn
* bef.1150-1153: Walter, possibly Walter fitz Alan

### Malcolm IV
* 1153–1165:  Enguerrand, Bishop o Glesga

### William I
* 1165-1171:  Nicholas
* c.1171-1178:  Walter de Bidun, Bishop o Dunkeld
* c.1178–1189:  Roger de Beaumont, Bishop o St Andras
* 1189–1199:  Hugh de Roxburgh, Bishop o Glesga
* 1199–1202:  William de Malveisin, Bishop o Glesga
* 1203-1210:  Florence o Holland, Bishop-elect o Glesga
* 1211-1224:  William del Bois, Airchdeacon o Lowden

### Alexander II
* 1226-1227:  Thomas de Stirling, Airchdeacon o Glesga
* 1227-1230:  Matthew the Scot, Bishop-elect o Dunkeld
* 1231–1233:  William de Bondington, Bishop o Glesga
* 1233-1249:  Sir William de Lindsay

### Alexander III
* 1249–1250:  Robert de Keldeleth, Abbot o Dunfaurlin
* 1250-1253:  Gamelin, Bishop o St Andras
* 1256–1257:  Richard de Inverkeithing, Bishop o Dunkeld
* 1259-1273:  William Wishart, Bishop o Glesga
* 1273–c.1279:  William Fraser, Bishop o St Andras
* 1285-1291:  Thomas Charteris, Airchdeacon o Lowden

### Inglis Appyntees in the Interregnum
* 1291:  Alan de St Edmund, Bishop o Caithness
* 1292:  William de Dumfries
* 1292:  Alan de Dumfries
* 1294-1295: Thomas de Hunsinghore
* 1295-1296: Alexander Kennedy
* c.1301–c.1305:  Nicholas de Balmyle, Bishop o Dunblane

### Robert I
* 1308–1328:  Bernard, Abbot o Arbroath (later Bishop o the Isles)

### David II
* 1328-1329:  Walter de Twynham, Rector o Glesga *Primo*
* 1329-1332:  Adam de Moravia, Bishop o Brechin
* 1338-1341: William Bullock, Chancellor tae Edward Baliol
* 1342: William de Bosco
* 1335x1340–1346:  Sir Thomas Charteris
* 1350-1352:  William Caldwell
* 1353–1370:  Patrick de Leuchars, Bishop o Brechin

### Robert II
* 1370–1377:  John de Carrick, Bishop-elect o Dunkeld
* 1377–1390:  John de Peebles, Bishop o Dunkeld

### Robert III
* 1394:       Duncan Petit, Airchdeacon o Glesga
* 1396-1421:  Gilbert de Greenlaw, Bishop o Aiberdeen

### James I
* 1422–1425:  William Lauder, Bishop o Glesga
* 1426–1439:  John Cameron, Bishop o Glesga

### James II
* 1439–c.1444:  William Crichton, 1st Laird Crichton
* 1444:       James Kennedy, Archbishop o Saunt Andras
* 1444-1447:  James Bruce, Bishop o Dunkeld an Glesga
* 1447–1453:  William Crichton, 1st Laird Crichton,
* 1454–1456:  William Sinclair, Yerl o Orkney an Caithness
* 1457–1460: George Shoreswood, Bishop o Brechin

### James III
* 1460–1482:  Andrew Stewart, 1st Laird Avandale
* 1482–1483:  John Laing, Bishop o Glesga
* 1483:       James Livingstone, Bishop o Dunkeld
* 1483–1488:  Colin Campbell, 1st Yerl o Argyll

### James IV
* 1488 (Feb–Jun):  William Elphinstone, Bishop o Aiberdeen
* 1488–1492:  Colin Campbell, 1st Yerl o Argyll
* 1493–1497:  Archibald Douglas, 5t Yerl o Angus
* 1497–1501:  George Gordon, 2nt Yerl o Huntly
* 1501–1504:  James Stewart, Duke o Ross
* 1510–1513:  Alexander Stewart (d. 1513), Archbishop o St Andras

### James V
* 1513–1526:  James Beaton, Archbishop o Glesga (later Archbishop o St Andras)
* 1527–1528:  Archibald Douglas, 6t Yerl o Angus
* 1528–1543:  Gavin Dunbar, Archbishop o Glesga

### Mary I
* 1543–1546:  David Beaton, Archbishop o St Andras
* 1546–1562:  George Gordon, 4t Yerl o Huntly
* 1563–1566:  James Douglas, 4t Yerl o Morton
* 1566–1567:  George Gordon, 5t Yerl o Huntly

### James VI
* 1567–1573:  James Douglas, 4t Yerl o Morton
* 1573 (Jan–Sep):  Archibald Campbell, 5t Yerl o Argyll
* 1573–1578:  John Lyon, 8t Laird Glamis
* 1578–1579:  John Stewart, 4t Yerl o Atholl
* 1579–1584:  Colin Campbell, 6t Yerl o Argyll
* 1584–1585:  James Stewart, Yerl o Arran
* 1586–1595:  John Maitland, 1st Laird Maitland o Thirlestane
* 1599–1604:  John Graham, 3rd Yerl o Munross
* 1604–1622:  Alexander Seton, 1st Yerl o Dumfaurlin
* 1622–1634:  George Hay, 1st Yerl o Kinnoull

### Charles I
* 1635–1638:  John Spottiswoode, Archbishop o St Andras
* 1638–1641:  James Hamilton, 1st Duke o Hamilton
* 1641–1660:  John Campbell, 1st Yerl o Loudoun

### Charles II
* 1660–1664:  William Cunningham, 9t Yerl o Glencairn
* 1664–1681:  John Leslie, 7t Yerl o Rothes (1st Duke o Rothes frae 29 Mey 1680)
* 1681-1682:  *Office vacant*
* 1682–1684:  George Gordon, 1st Yerl o Aiberdeen

### James VII
* 1684–1689:  James Drummond, 4t Yerl o Perth

### William III an Mary II
* 1689-1692:  *In commission*
* 1692–1696:  John Hay, 1st Marquess o Tweeddale
* 1696–1702:  Patrick Hume, 1st Yerl o Marchmont

### Anne
* 1702–1704:  James Ogilvy, 1st Yerl o Seafield
* 1704–1705:  John Hay, 2nt Marquess o Tweeddale
* 1705–1707:  James Ogilvy, 1st Yerl o Seafield

## References

### Notes

### Soorces
*Cowan, Samuel, *The Lord Chancellors of Scotland* Edinburgh 1911. https://archive.org/stream/lordchancellorso01cowauoft#page/n7/mode/2up