Historic List of Senators of the College of Justice
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A list of the Senators of the College of Justice
Senator of the College of Justice
The Senators of the College of Justice are judges of the College of Justice, a set of legal institutions involved in the administration of justice in Scotland. There are three types of Senator: Lords of Session ; Lords Commissioner of Justiciary ; and the Chairman of the Scottish Land Court...

 in Scotland from 1689 to present.
Date Name Title Predecessor
1 Nov 1689 Sir James Dalrymple, Lord Stair
James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair
James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair , Scottish lawyer and statesman, was born at Drummurchie, Barr, South Ayrshire.-Biography:...

Lord President
Lord President of the Court of Session
The Lord President of the Court of Session is head of the judiciary in Scotland, and presiding judge of the College of Justice and Court of Session, as well as being Lord Justice General of Scotland and head of the High Court of Justiciary, the offices having been combined in 1836...

 
Sir John Baird Newbyth  
Alexander Swinton Marsington  
Sir Colin Campbell Aberuchill  
James Murray Philiphaugh  
Robert Dundas Arniston  
John Hamilton Halcraig  
David Home Crocerig  
Sir John Maitland Ravelrig  
Sir Robert Sinclair Stevenson  
Sir John Lauder
John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall
Sir John Lauder of Fountainhall, 2nd Baronet, Lord Fountainhall was one of Scotland's leading jurists who remains to this day an oft consulted authority...

Fountainhall  
Sir William Anstruther Anstruther  
Archibald Hope Rankeillour  
James Falconer Phesdo  
Robert Hamilton Presmennan  
5 July 1690 John Hay, Earl of Tweeddale
John Hay, 1st Marquess of Tweeddale
John Hay, 1st Marquess and 2nd Earl of Tweeddale was Lord Chancellor of Scotland....

Lord Chancellor  
23 Nov 1693 William Douglas
William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry
William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry PC also 3rd Earl of Queensberry and 1st Marquess of Queensberry was a Scottish politician....

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Duke of Queensberry  
William Johnston
William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale
William Johnstone, 2nd Earl of Annandale and Hartfell, 1st Marquess of Annandale KT was a Scottish nobleman. He was the son of James Johnstone, 1st Earl of Hartfell and Henrietta Douglas...

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28 November 1693 Patrick Hume
Patrick Hume, 1st Earl of Marchmont
Patrick Hume, 1st Earl of Marchmont , known as Sir Patrick Hume, 1st Baronet from 1648 to 1690 and as Lord Polwarth from 1690 to 1697, was a Scottish statesman...

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Lord Polwarth  
19 December 1693 William Hamilton
William Douglas, Duke of Hamilton
William Douglas-Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Hamilton, KG, PC , born Lord William Douglas, was the son of William Douglas, 1st Marquess of Douglas and his second wife Lady Mary Gordon, a daughter of George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly...

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Duke of Hamilton  
29 December 1693 Sir William Hamilton Whitelaw Stevenson, ret
14 December 1694 Archibald Campbell
Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll
Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, 10th Earl of Argyll was a Scottish peer.-Biography:The eldest son of Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll and Mary Stuart, daughter of James Stuart, 4th Earl of Moray, Campbell sought to recover his father's estates...

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Earl of Argyll Duke of Hamilton, dec
2 May 1696 Patrick Hume, Lord Polwarth
Patrick Hume, 1st Earl of Marchmont
Patrick Hume, 1st Earl of Marchmont , known as Sir Patrick Hume, 1st Baronet from 1648 to 1690 and as Lord Polwarth from 1690 to 1697, was a Scottish statesman...

Lord Chancellor Tweeddale, suc.
9 June 1696 James Scougal Whitehill Pressmennan, dec
26 June 1696 James Douglas
James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry
James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry and 1st Duke of Dover was a Scottish nobleman.He was the eldest son of William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry and his wife Isabel Douglas, daughter of William Douglas, 1st Marquess of Douglas.Educated at the University of Glasgow, he was appointed a...

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Duke of Queensberry Duke of Queensberry
William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry
William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry PC also 3rd Earl of Queensberry and 1st Marquess of Queensberry was a Scottish politician....

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7 June 1698 Hew Dalrymple, Lord North Berwick
Hew Dalrymple, Lord North Berwick
Sir Hew Dalrymple, Lord North Berwick was a Scottish judge and politician.The third son of James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair, he was Commissary of Edinburgh; Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland for New Galloway burgh from 1690, and for North Berwick burgh from 1702.Dalrymple was Dean...

Lord President Stair
James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair
James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair , Scottish lawyer and statesman, was born at Drummurchie, Barr, South Ayrshire.-Biography:...

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7 February 1699 Hugh Campbell, ext Earl of Loudoun Marchmont, pr
17 February 1699 Sir John Maxwell Pollock Newbyth, d
25 July 1701 Robert Stewart Tillicutrie Mersington, d
1 November 1702 James Ogilvy, Earl of Seafield
James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater
James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater and 1st Earl of Seafield KT PC was a Scottish politician.Findlater was the son of James Ogilvy, 3rd Earl of Findlater, and Lady Anne Montgomerie. He was elected to the Faculty of Advocates in 1685, and was a Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland for...

Lord Chancellor Polwarth, suc
12 January 1703 Roderick Mackenzie Prestonhall Whitehill, dec
20 June 1704 John Campbell
John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll
Field Marshal John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, 1st Duke of Greenwich KG , known as Iain Ruaidh nan Cath or Red John of the Battles, was a Scottish soldier and nobleman.-Early Life:...

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Duke of Argyll Duke of Argyll
Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll
Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, 10th Earl of Argyll was a Scottish peer.-Biography:The eldest son of Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll and Mary Stuart, daughter of James Stuart, 4th Earl of Moray, Campbell sought to recover his father's estates...

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17 October 1704 John Hay, 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale
John Hay, 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale
John Hay, 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale was a Scottish nobleman.Hay was the eldest son of John Hay, 1st Marquess of Tweeddale and his wife, Jean, daughter of Walter Scott, 1st Earl of Buccleuch. In 1666, at Highgate in London, he married Lady Mary Maitland, daughter of John Maitland, 1st Duke of...

Lord Chancellor Earl of Seafield
James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater
James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater and 1st Earl of Seafield KT PC was a Scottish politician.Findlater was the son of James Ogilvy, 3rd Earl of Findlater, and Lady Anne Montgomerie. He was elected to the Faculty of Advocates in 1685, and was a Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland for...

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7 November 1704 Sir Alexander Campbell Cessnock Abeuchill, dec
31 January 1705 Adam Cockburn
Adam Cockburn, Lord Ormiston
Adam Cockburn of Ormiston, Lord Ormiston was a Scottish judge and Lord Justice Clerk.A younger son of John Cockburn of Ormiston by his spouse Margaret Hepburn, Adam was retoured heir to his brother John in the family's ancient estate of Ormiston, East Lothian, on 28 December 1671...

Ormiston Whitelaw, dec
9 March 1705 James Ogilvie, Earl of Seafield
James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater
James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater and 1st Earl of Seafield KT PC was a Scottish politician.Findlater was the son of James Ogilvy, 3rd Earl of Findlater, and Lady Anne Montgomerie. He was elected to the Faculty of Advocates in 1685, and was a Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland for...

Lord Chancellor Tweeddale
John Hay, 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale
John Hay, 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale was a Scottish nobleman.Hay was the eldest son of John Hay, 1st Marquess of Tweeddale and his wife, Jean, daughter of Walter Scott, 1st Earl of Buccleuch. In 1666, at Highgate in London, he married Lady Mary Maitland, daughter of John Maitland, 1st Duke of...

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28 June 1705 Sir Gilbert Elliot Minto Phesdo, dec
23 July 1706 Sir Alexander Ogilvy Forglen Halcraig
18 March 1707 James Erskine Grange Rankeillour, dec
6 June 1707 John Murray Bowhill Crocerig, dec
1 Jun 1709 Dugald Stewart Blairhall Tillicutrie, r
10 June 1709 Sir Francis Grant Cullen Philiphaugh, dec
7 June 1710 Sir James Mackenzie Royston Prestonhall, res
8 November 1710 David Erskine
David Erskine, Lord Dun
David Erskine, Lord Dun , was a Scottish judge and MP.Erskine, son of David Erskine of Dun, near Montrose, Forfarshire, studied at the universities of St. Andrews and of Paris. He became a member of the Scottish bar on 19 November 1698, and soon rose to eminence...

Dun Lauderdale, dec
6 November 1711 Sir William Calderwood Polton Anstruther, dec
7 November 1712 John Murray
John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl
John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl, KT, PC was a Scottish nobleman, politician, and soldier. He served in numerous positions during his life, and fought in the Glorious Revolution for William III and Mary II....

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Duke of Atholl Queensberry, dec
8 November 1712 James Hamilton Pencaitland Blairhall, dec
5 June 1714 James Elphinston Coupar Bowhill, dec
23 November 1714 Sir Andrew Hume Kimmerghame Cesnock, ret
6 June 1718 Sir Walter Pringle Newhall Minto, dec
7 March 1721 John Hay, 4th Marquess of Tweeddale
John Hay, 4th Marquess of Tweeddale
John Hay, 4th Marquess of Tweeddale PC was a Scottish nobleman.Tweeddale was an able and accomplished statesman, and possessed considerable knowledge of law. He was appointed an Extraordinary Lord of Session in 1721, the last person to hold this office. He was one of the Scottish representative...

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Marquess of Tweeddale Annandale, dec
4 June 1724 Andrew Fletcher
Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton
Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton was a notable Scottish judge and Lord Justice Clerk.-Family:Andrew Fletcher was the son of Henry Fletcher of Saltoun by his spouse Margaret , daughter of Sir David Carnegie, 1st Baronet of Pittarow .-Career:Having been educated for the Bar,...

Milton, Justice Clerk Fountainhall
John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall
Sir John Lauder of Fountainhall, 2nd Baronet, Lord Fountainhall was one of Scotland's leading jurists who remains to this day an oft consulted authority...

4 June 1726 Sir Gilbert Elliot Minto, Justice Clerk Cullen, dec
29 December 1726 Hew Dalrymple Drummore Arniston, dec
10 June 1727 Patrick Campbell Monzie Forglen, dec
1 July 1729 John Pringle Haining Pencaitland, dec
5 June 1730 Alexander Fraser Strichen Kimmerghame, dec
3 November 1732 Patrick Grant Elchies Pollock, dec
3 November 1733 John Sinclair
John Sinclair, Lord Murkle
John Sinclair, Lord Murkle was a Scottish judge.A son of John Sinclair, 8th Earl of Caithness and Janet Carmichael of the Hyndford family, he was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates on 7 February 1713. On 18 January 1721 he was appointed one of the Solicitors General for Scotland...

Murkle Polton, dec
11 July 1734 Alexander Leslie
Alexander Melville, 5th Earl of Leven
Alexander Melville , 5th Earl of Leven was the son of David Melville, 3rd Earl of Leven....

Earl of Leven Grange, ret
3 November 1735 Sir James Fergusson Kilkerran Ormistoun, dec
10 June 1737 Robert Dundas
Robert Dundas, Lord Arniston, the elder
Robert Dundas, Lord Arniston, the elder was a Scottish judge.The second son of Robert Dundas he served as Solicitor General for Scotland from 1717 to 1720 and as Lord Advocate from 1720 to 1725...

Arniston Newhall, dec
21 June 1737 Duncan Forbes of Culloden Lord President North Berwick
Hew Dalrymple, Lord North Berwick
Sir Hew Dalrymple, Lord North Berwick was a Scottish judge and politician.The third son of James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair, he was Commissary of Edinburgh; Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland for New Galloway burgh from 1690, and for North Berwick burgh from 1702.Dalrymple was Dean...

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23 November 1744 Charles Erskine Tinwald Royston, dec
19 December 1746 Patrick Boyle Shewalton Balmerino, dec
10 September 1748 Robert Dundas of Arniston
Robert Dundas, Lord Arniston, the elder
Robert Dundas, Lord Arniston, the elder was a Scottish judge.The second son of Robert Dundas he served as Solicitor General for Scotland from 1717 to 1720 and as Lord Advocate from 1720 to 1725...

Lord President Culloden, dec
3 June 1749 James Grahame Easdale Arniston, LP
26 February 1751 George Sinclair Woodhall Easdale, dec
6 February 1752 Henry Home
Henry Home, Lord Kames
Henry Home, Lord Kames was a Scottish advocate, judge, philosopher, writer and agricultural improver. A central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, a founder member of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, and active in the Select Society, his protégés included James Boswell, David Hume and...

Kames Monzie, dec
2 February 1754 Robert Craigie
Robert Craigie
Robert Craigie was a Scottish politician and judge. He was baptised on March 4, 1688 and died on 10 March 1760.On 2 April 1742 he was elected Member of Parliament for the Tain Burghs constituency in northern Scotland...

Lord President Arniston, dec
15 February 1754 Alexander Boswell Auchinleck Dun, ret
14 November 1754 William Grant
William Grant, Lord Prestongrange
William Grant , Lord Prestongrange, was a Scottish politician and judge.The second son of Sir Francis Grant, Lord Cullen, he was admitted as an advocate in 1722, was procurator for the Church of Scotland and Clerk to the General Assembly in 1731. He campaigned against patronage in the Church...

Prestongrange Elchies, dec
20 November 1754 Robert Pringle Edgefield Leven, dec
28 November 1754 Thomas Hay Huntingdon Haining, dec
5 July 1755 Andrew Macdowal Bankton Murkle, dec
24 July 1755 Peter Wedderburn Chesterhall Huntingdon, dec
31 July 1755 George Carre Nisbet Drummore, dec
18 December 1756 George Brown Coalstoun Chesterhall, dec
14 June 1757 Andrew Pringle
Andrew Pringle, Lord Alemoor
Andrew Pringle, Lord Alemoor was a Scottish judge.He was the son of John Pringle of the Haining. He served as Sheriff of Selkirk, as Solicitor General for Scotland from 1755 until 1759 when he was appointed...

Alemore Kikerran, dec
14 June 1760 Robert Dundas
Robert Dundas, Lord Arniston, the younger
Robert Dundas, Lord Arniston, the younger was a Scottish judge.The eldest son of Robert Dundas , he was deducated at Edinburgh University and studied Roman law at Utrecht University....

Lord President Craigie
Robert Craigie
Robert Craigie was a Scottish politician and judge. He was baptised on March 4, 1688 and died on 10 March 1760.On 2 April 1742 he was elected Member of Parliament for the Tain Burghs constituency in northern Scotland...

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6 March 1761 James Veitch Elliock Bankton
18 June 1761 James Erskine Barjarg, Alva Shewalton, dec
16 June 1763 John Campbell Stonefield Tinwald, dec
14 June 1764 James Ferguson Pitfour Edgefield, dec
3 July 1764 Francis Gordon Gardenstoun Woodhall, dec
4 July 1764 Robert Bruce Kennet Prestoungrange, dec
6 March 1766 Sir David Dalrymple
David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes
Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes was a Scottish advocate, judge and historian, born in Edinburgh.-Family:...

Hailes Nisbet, dec
14 June 1766 Thomas Miller Barskimming Minto, dec
12 February 1767 James Burnett
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo was a Scottish judge, scholar of linguistic evolution, philosopher and deist. He is most famous today as a founder of modern comparative historical linguistics . In 1767 he became a judge in the Court of Session. As such, Burnett adopted an honorary title based on his...

Monboddo Milton, dec
10 March 1775 Alexander Lockhart Covington Strichen, dec
22 February 1776 David Ross Ankerville Alemore, dec
13 December 1776 Robert Macqueen
Robert Macqueen, Lord Braxfield
Robert McQueen, Lord Braxfield was a Scottish lawyer and judge.McQueen was born near Lanark, son of John McQueen of Braxfield.He studied in Edinburgh and was called to the Bar in 1744. In 1759 he was appointed an Advocate Depute appearing for the Crown in prosecutions. He often appeared in more...

Braxfield, JC Coalstoun, dec
10 July 1777 David Dalrymple Westhall Pitfour, dec
14 November 1782 David Rae
David Rae, Lord Eskgrove
Sir David Rae, Lord Eskgrove, 1st Baronet was a Scottish judge.-Life:He was the son of David Rae of St Andrews, an episcopalian minister, by his wife Agnes, daughter of Sir David Forbes of Newhall...

Eskgrove Auchinleck, dec
21 December 1782 John Swinton Swinton Covington, dec
6 March 1783 Alexander Murray Henderland Kames, dec
1 July 1784 Alexander Gordon
Alexander Gordon, Lord Rockville
Alexander Gordon, Lord Rockville was a Scottish judge.Rockville was the youngest son of William Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen, by his third wife Lady Anne, daughter of Alexander Gordon, 2nd Duke of Gordon...

Rockville Westhall, dec
4 March 1786 William Nairne Dunsinnan Kennet, dec
15 January 1788 Thomas Miller
Thomas Miller, Lord Glenlee
Sir Thomas Miller, 1st Baronet , known as Lord Glenlee during his judicial service, was a Scottish politician and judge....

Glenlee, Lord President Arniston, dec
17 January 1789 John Maclaurin Dreghorn Glenlee
Thomas Miller, Lord Glenlee
Sir Thomas Miller, 1st Baronet , known as Lord Glenlee during his judicial service, was a Scottish politician and judge....

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12 November 1789 Ilay Campbell Lord President Glenlee
Thomas Miller, Lord Glenlee
Sir Thomas Miller, 1st Baronet , known as Lord Glenlee during his judicial service, was a Scottish politician and judge....

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7 June 1792 Alexander Abercromby Abercromby Rockville, dec
21 December 1792 William Craig Craig Hailes
David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes
Sir David Dalrymple, 3rd Baronet, Lord Hailes was a Scottish advocate, judge and historian, born in Edinburgh.-Family:...

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14 November 1793 William Baillie
William Baillie, Lord Polkemmet
William Baillie, Lord Polkemmet , was a Scottish judge.Baillie was the eldest son of Thomas Baillie, Writer to the Signet. He was admitted advocate 1758, judge 1793, resigned 1811, and died 14 March 1816.-References:...

Polkemmet Elliock
15 November 1793 David Smythe Methven Gardenstone, dec
16 May 1795 Sir William Miller Glenlee Henderland, dec
11 March 1796 Allan Maconochie
Allan Maconochie, Lord Meadowbank
Allan Maconochie, Lord Meadowbank FRSE FSA was a Scottish advocate, academic jurist, judge and agriculturalist.-Life:The only son of Alexander Maconochie of Meadowbank, Midlothian, by his wife Isabella, daughter of the Rev. Walter Allan, minister of Colinton in the same county, was born on 26...

Meadowbank Abercromby, dec
17 November 1796 Robert Cullen
Robert Cullen, Lord Cullen
Robert Cullen, Lord Cullen FRSE was a Scottish judge. He played a key role, along with his father William Cullen, in obtaining a royal charter for the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, resulting in the formation of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783.Born on 22 September 1742, in Edinburgh,...

Cullen Alva, dec
7 February 1797 William Honyman Armadale Dreghorn, dec
16 May 1799 William Macleod Bannatyne
William Bannatyne, Lord Bannatyne
Sir William Macleod Bannatyne was a distinguished Scottish lawyer and judge.-Biography:The son of Mr. Roderick Macleod, writer to the signet and Isabel , daughter of Hector Bannatyne of Kames. He received a liberal education, and was admitted advocate, January 22, 1765...

Bannatyne Swinton, dec
12 May 1799 Claid Irvine Boswell Balmuto Monboddo
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo was a Scottish judge, scholar of linguistic evolution, philosopher and deist. He is most famous today as a founder of modern comparative historical linguistics . In 1767 he became a judge in the Court of Session. As such, Burnett adopted an honorary title based on his...

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12 May 1799 George Fergusson Hermand Braxfield
Robert Macqueen, Lord Braxfield
Robert McQueen, Lord Braxfield was a Scottish lawyer and judge.McQueen was born near Lanark, son of John McQueen of Braxfield.He studied in Edinburgh and was called to the Bar in 1744. In 1759 he was appointed an Advocate Depute appearing for the Crown in prosecutions. He often appeared in more...

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6 February 1802 Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee Stonefield, dec
6 December 1804 Charles Hope Granton, Lord Justice Clerk Eskgrove
David Rae, Lord Eskgrove
Sir David Rae, Lord Eskgrove, 1st Baronet was a Scottish judge.-Life:He was the son of David Rae of St Andrews, an episcopalian minister, by his wife Agnes, daughter of Sir David Forbes of Newhall...

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14 November 1805 William Robertson Robertson Ankerville, dec
6 September 1806 Robert Blair Avontoun, Lord President Succoth, ret
8 April 1809 Archibald Campbell Succoth Dunsinnan
15 February 1811 David Boyle Boyle Cullen, dec
10 October 1811 Charles Hope, Lord Granton Lord President Blair, dec
19 October 1811 David Boyle Lord Justice Clerk Granton, President
6 September 1811 Robert Craigie Craigie Polkemmet, ret
15 November 1811 David Williamson Balgray Woodhouselee
23 November 1811 Adam Gillies Gillies Newton,dec
1 February 1813 David Monypenny Pitmilly Woodhouselee, dec
14 April 1813 David Cathcart Alloway Armadale
7 September 1813 David Douglas
David Douglas, Lord Reston
David Douglas, Lord Reston was a Scottish judge and the heir of Adam Smith.He was born on 24 July 1769, in Strathendry, the fifth and youngest son of Col...

Reston Craig, dec
8 July 1816 James Wolfe Murray Cringletie
Cringletie
Cringletie is a Scottish Baronial house by the Eddleston Water, around south of Eddleston in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, in the former Peeblesshire. Designed by David Bryce and built in 1861, the house is a Category B listed building...

Meadowbank, dec
24 June 1819 Alexander Maconochie
Alexander Maconochie, Lord Meadowbank
Alexander Maconochie, later Maconochie-Welwood , was a Scottish judge.The son of Allan Maconochie, Lord Meadowbank, he was admitted as an advocate in 1799...

Meadowbank Reston, dec
25 January 1822 William Erskine Kinnedder Balmuto, ret
9 November 1822 Joshua H. Mackenzie Mackenzie Kinnedder, dec
11 November 1823 John Clerk
John Clerk, Lord Eldin
John Clerk, Lord Eldin was a Scottish judge.-Life:He was the eldest son of John Clerk of Eldin, and his wife, Susannah Adam, the sister of John Adam and Robert Adam. He was born in April 1757. Though originally intended for the Indian Civil Service, he was apprenticed to a writer to the signet...

Eldin Bannatyne, ret
14 January 1825 John Hay Forbes Medwyn Succoth, ret
21 November 1826 George Cranstoun Corehouse Hermand, ret
14 December 1826 Alexander Irving Newton Robertson, ret
17 February 1829 John Fullerton Fullerton Eldin, ret
24 June 1829 Sir James Wellwood Moncreiff Moncreiff Alloway, dec.
6 June 1834 Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey Craigie, dec
15 November 1834 Henry Cockburn Cockburn Cringletie, ret
16 February 1837 John Cunninghame Cunningham Balgray, dec
17 May 1839 Sir John Archibald Murray
John Murray, Lord Murray
Sir John Archibald Murray, Lord Murray, was a Scottish judge.Son of Alexander Murray, Lord Henderland, he contributed to the Edinburgh Review from its commencement. He was a promoter of the 1832 Reform Bill and was Member of Parliament for Leith Burghs from 1832 until 1839.He was appointed Lord...

Murray Corehouse, ret
23 May 1840 James Ivory
James Ivory, Lord Ivory
James Ivory, Lord Ivory FRSE , was a Scottish judge.The son of Thomas Ivory, watchmaker and engraver, he was born in Dundee on 29 February 1792...

Ivory Glenlee
16 November 1841 Rt Hon John Hope Lord Justice Clerk Boyle
23 November 1842 Alexander Wood Wood Gillies, ret
22 November 1843 Patrick Robertson Robertson Meadowbank, ret
6 February 1850 Thomas Maitland
Thomas Maitland, Lord Dundrennan
Thomas Maitland, Lord Dundrennan was a Scottish lawyer and judge. He was Solicitor General for Scotland between 1840 and 1841 and again between 1846 and 1850. He was also Member of Parliament for Kirkcudbrightshire between 1845 and 1850...

Dundrennan Jeffrey, dec
23 May 1851 Andrew Rutherfurd Rutherfurd  
23 May 1851 Duncan McNeill
Duncan McNeill, 1st Baron Colonsay
Duncan McNeill, 1st Baron Colonsay FRSE was a Scottish advocate, judge and Tory politician. He was Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session between 1852 and 1867....

Colonsay  
27 Jun 1851 John Cowan Cowan  
22 May 1852 Adam Anderson
Adam Anderson, Lord Anderson
Adam Anderson, Lord Anderson was a Scottish judge.He served as Solicitor General for Scotland from 1842 to 1846 and as Lord Advocate from February to May 1852.He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 5 February 1849....

 
Anderson  
16 Nov 1852 John Marshall
John Marshall, Lord Curriehill
John Marshall, Lord Curriehill was a Scottish judge.Marshall, son of John Marshall of Garlieston, Wigtonshire, by Marion, daughter of Henry Walker, was born in Wigtonshire on 7 Jan. 1794...

Curriehill  
1 Jun 1853 Sir George Deas Deas  
19 Nov 1853 Robert Handyside Handyside  
7 Dec 1853 Hercules James Robertson Benholme  
24 May 1854 Charles Neaves Neaves  
18 Jan 1855 James Crawfurd
James Craufurd, Lord Ardmillan
-Background and education:Born at Havant in Hampshire, he was eldest son of Major Archibald Clifford Blackwell Craufurd of Ardmillan by Jane, eldest daughter of John Leslie. He was educated at the academy at Ayr, at the burgh school, Edinburgh, and at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh...

Ardmillan  
8 Feb 1855 Thomas Mackenzie Mackenzie  
13 May 1858 William Penney Kinloch  
14 Jul 1858 John Inglis
John Inglis, Lord Glencorse
John Inglis, Lord Glencorse FRSE was a Scottish politician and judge. He was Lord President of the Court of Session ....

Glencorse  
13 May 1859 Charles Baillie
Charles Baillie, Lord Jerviswoode
Charles Baillie, Lord Jerviswood was a Scottish advocate, judge and politicianBaillie was the second son of George Baillie of Mellerstain House and Jerviswood , son of the Hon. George Hamilton, younger brother of Thomas Hamilton, 7th Earl of Haddington. His mother was Mary Charles Baillie, Lord...

Jerviswoode  
5 Feb 1862 Robert Macfarlane Ormidale  
13 Nov 1862 Edward Francis Maitland Barcaple  
13 Jan 1865 David Mure
David Mure, Lord Mure
David Mure was a Scottish lawyer and Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1859 to 1865, when he became a judge....

Mure  
2 Mar 1867 George Patton
George Patton, Lord Glenalmond
George Patton, Lord Glenalmond was a Scottish politician and judge.He studied law at Edinburgh University. He studied at Glasgow University and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was Conservative Member of Parliament for Bridgwater, Somerset from 1865 to 1866...

Glenalmond  
20 Oct 1868 George Dundas Manor  
19 Oct 1869 James Moncreiff
James Moncreiff, 1st Baron Moncreiff
James Moncreiff, 1st Baron Moncreiff FRSE , was a Scottish lawyer and politician.The son of Sir James Wellwood Moncreiff, 9th Baronet, a Scottish judge, he was educated at Edinburgh University and was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1833.He was appointed Solicitor General for Scotland in...

Moncreiff  
1 Feb 1870 Adam Gifford Gifford  
18 Mar 1870 Donald Mackenzie Mackenzie  
11 Dec 1872 Alexander Burns Shand
Alexander Shand, 1st Baron Shand
Alexander Burns Shand, 1st Baron Shand PC , was a Scottish advocate and judge. He was a Lord of Session between 1872 and 1890 and a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary between 1892 and his death in 1904.-Background and education:...

Shand  
3 Mar 1874 George Young Young  
17 Jul 1874 John Millar
John Millar, Lord Craighill
John Millar, Lord Craighill was a Scottish lawyer and judge. He served two brief terms as Solicitor General for Scotland and in 1874 was appointed a Senator of the College of Justice....

Craighill  
31 Oct 1874 John Marshall
John Marshall, Lord Curriehill
John Marshall, Lord Curriehill was a Scottish judge.Marshall, son of John Marshall of Garlieston, Wigtonshire, by Marion, daughter of Henry Walker, was born in Wigtonshire on 7 Jan. 1794...

Curriehill  
2 Nov 1875 Andrew Rutherfurd Clark
Andrew Rutherfurd-Clark, Lord Rutherfurd-Clark
Andrew Rutherfurd Clark, Lord Rutherfurd-Clark LLD was a Scottish judgeThe son of Rev. T. Clark, Minister of St Andrew's Church, Edinburgh, and Grizel Rutherfurd . He married his cousin, the daughter of Major James H. Rutherford.He was called to the Scottish bar in 1849...

Rutherfurd Clark  
6 Dec 1876 James Adam Adam  
12 May 1880 Robert Lee Lee  
15 Feb 1881 Patrick Fraser Fraser  
18 Oct 1881 John McLaren McLaren  
10 Jan 1882 Alexander Smith Kinnear Kinnear  
27 Feb 1885 John Trayner Trayner  
30 Oct 1888 Sir John Hay Athole Macdonald
John Hay Athole Macdonald, Lord Kingsburgh
Sir John Hay Athole Macdonald KCB, PC was a Scottish politician and later a judge.He was called to the Scottish bar in 1859. On 30 July 1875 he was appointed by Queen Victoria to be Sheriff of the Shires of Ross, Cromarty, and Sutherland. He was appointed Solicitor General for Scotland from 1876...

Kingsburgh  
6 Nov 1888 Henry James Moncreiff Wellwood  
14 May 1889 William Mackintosh Kyllachy  
7 Nov 1889 William Ellis Gloag Kincairney  
28 Oct 1890 Moir Tod Stormonth Darling
Moir Tod Stormonth Darling, Lord Stormonth-Darling
Moir Tod Stormonth Darling, Lord Stormonth-Darling was a Scottish politician and judge.He was Member of Parliament for Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities from 1888 to 1890 and served as Solicitor General for Scotland during the same period...

Stormonth Darling  
25 Nov 1890 Alexander Low Low  
16 Oct 1891 James Patrick Bannerman Robertson
James Robertson, Baron Robertson
James Patrick Bannerman Robertson, Baron Robertson , was a Scottish judge and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 until 1891 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Robertson....

Robertson  
12 May 1896 Sir Charles John Pearson Pearson  
28 Nov 1899 John Blair Balfour
John Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross
John Blair Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross, PC, QC was a Scottish lawyer and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1899....

Blair Balfour  
11 Jan 1905 Andrew Jameson Ardwall  
17 Feb 1905 David Dundas
David Dundas, Lord Dundas
David Dundas, Lord Dundas was a Scottish politician and judge.The youngest son of George Dundas, one of the Senators of the College of Justice in Scotland, and of late Elizabeth Mackenzie, he was educated at Edinburgh Academy, Balliol College, Oxford and Edinburgh University.He was admitted to the...

Dundas  
21 Feb 1905 Andrew Graham Murray
Andrew Murray, 1st Viscount Dunedin
Andrew Graham Murray, 1st Viscount Dunedin GCVO, PC, QC was a Scottish politician and judge. He served as Secretary for Scotland between 1903 and 1905, as Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session between 1905 and 1913 and as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary between 1913 and...

Dunedin  
19 May 1905 Henry Johnston Johnston  
17 Oct 1905 Edward Theodore Salvesen
Edward Theodore Salvesen
Edward Theodore Salvesen, Lord Salvesen PC QC LLD was a Scottish lawyer, politician and judge.-Biography:...

Salvesen  
8 Dec 1905 Charles Kincaid Mackenzie Mackenzie  
22 Jan 1907 Charles John Guthrie Guthrie  
15 Oct 1908 William Campbell Skerrington  
20 Jul 1909 William James Cullen Cullen  
18 May 1910 Arthur Dewar
Arthur Dewar, Lord Dewar
Arthur Dewar, later Lord Dewar, was a Scottish politician and judge, who served as a Liberal Member of Parliament for Edinburgh South as well as Solicitor General for Scotland and later a Senator of the College of Justice....

Dewar  
22 Oct 1910 George Lewis Macfarlane Ormidale  
12 Dec 1911 William Hunter
William Hunter, Lord Hunter
William Hunter, Lord Hunter was a Scottish politician and judge.The son of David Hunter of Ayr, he was educated at Glasgow University and Edinburgh University and became an advocate in 1889...

Hunter  
17 Oct 1913 Alexander Ure
Alexander Ure, 1st Baron Strathclyde
Alexander Ure, 1st Baron Strathclyde GBE was a Scottish politician and judge.Educated at the University of Glasgow he was admitted to membership of the Faculty of Advocates in 1878....

Strathclyde  
4 Nov 1913 Andrew Macbeth Anderson Anderson  
1 Jul 1915 Charles Scott Dickson Scott Dickson  
16 Oct 1917 Sir Christopher Nicholson Johnston Sands  
1 Nov 1918 Robert Francis Leslie Blackburn Blackburn  
12 May 1920 James Avon Clyde Clyde  
8 Jun 1920 John Wilson Ashmore  
8 Mar 1922 Thomas Brash Morison  Morison  
4 Jul 1922 Andrew Henderson Briggs Constable
Andrew Constable, Lord Constable
Andrew Henderson Briggs Constable, Lord Constable, CBE, KC , was a Scottish Conservative politician and judge....

Constable  
19 Oct 1922 Robert Munro
Robert Munro, 1st Baron Alness
Robert Munro, 1st Baron Alness GBE, PC, KC, DL was a Scottish lawyer, judge and Liberal politician. He served as Secretary for Scotland between 1916 and 1922 in David Lloyd George's coalition government and as Lord Justice Clerk between 1922 and 1933.-Background and education:Munro was born in...

Alness  
14 Nov 1922 Charles David Murray Murray  
5 Jan 1926 David Pinkerton Fleming Fleming  
5 Jan 1926 Alexander Moncrieff
Alexander Moncrieff, Lord Moncrieff
-Background and education:Alexander Moncrieff was the third son of Alexander Moncrieff, Advocate and Sheriff of Ross and Cromarty. Moncrieff was educated at Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities.-Legal career:...

Moncrieff
30 May 1928 Alexander Morrice Mackay Mackay  
8 Jan 1929 James Campbell Pitman Pitman  
14 Feb 1933 John Lean Wark Wark  
17 Oct 1933 Craigie Mason Aitchison Aitchison  
12 May 1934 John Francis Carmont Carmont  
7 May 1935 Wilfrid Guild Normand
Wilfrid Normand, Baron Normand
Wilfrid Guild Normand, Baron Normand, KC, PC , was a Scottish politician and judge.Educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh, Oriel College, Oxford, Paris University and Edinburgh University, he was admitted as an advocate in 1910. He served in the Royal Engineers from 1915 to 1918...

Normand  
12 Nov 1935 Douglas Jamieson Jamieson  
18 Feb 1936 Thomas Graham Robertson Robertson  
24 Jun 1936 James Stevenson Stevenson  
7 Jul 1936 Albert Russell Russell  
4 Jun 1937 James Keith
James Keith, Baron Keith of Avonholm
James Keith, Baron Keith of Avonholm PC was a Scottish advocate and Lord of Session.His grandfather and namesake, James Keith and his father, Sir Henry Shanks Keith James Keith, Baron Keith of Avonholm PC (20 May 1886 - 29 June 1964) was a Scottish advocate and Lord of Session.His grandfather and...

Keith  
26 May 1939 William Donald Patrick Patrick  
13 Jun 1941 Thomas Mackay Cooper
Thomas Cooper, 1st Baron Cooper of Culross
Thomas Mackay Cooper, 1st Baron Cooper of Culross PC, KC was a Scottish politician, judge and historian.-Background and education:...

Cooper  
15 Jun 1944 Charles Mackintosh Mackintosh  
24 Nov 1944 James Gordon McIntyre Sorn  
3 Jul 1945 Sir Thomas David King Murray
David King Murray
Sir Thomas David King Murray, known as David King Murray, Kt KC LLD MA BSc LLB FRSE was a Scottish politician and judge....

Birnam  
4 Mar 1947 Daniel Patterson Blades Blades  
14 Oct 1947 George Reid Thomson Thomson  
15 Oct 1948 James Frederick Strachan Strachan  
25 Jan 1949 Henry Wallace Guthrie Guthrie  
20 Jun 1952 Laurence Hill Watson Hill Watson  
10 Nov 1953 James Frederick Gordon Thomson Migdale  
2 Feb 1954 John Wheatley Wheatley  
16 Feb 1954 James Walker Walker  
11 Jan 1955 James Latham McDiarmid Clyde Clyde  
5 Jul 1955 Sir John Cameron
John Cameron, Lord Cameron
John Cameron, Lord Cameron KT DSC PRSE FBA was a Scottish judge, and President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1973 to 1976.He was elected a Senator of the College of Justice on 5 July 1955....

Cameron  
2 Oct 1957 Christopher William Graham Guest
Christopher Guest, Baron Guest
Christopher William Graham Guest, Baron Guest PC was a British judge.On 20 January 1961, he was appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and was created a life peer with the title Baron Guest, of Graden in the County of Berwick...

Guest  
5 May 1959 Charles James Dalrymple Shaw
Charles Shaw, Baron Kilbrandon
Charles James Dalrymple Shaw, Baron Kilbrandon PC was a Scottish judge and law lord.-Family and education:...

Kilbrandon  
3 May 1960 William Rankine Milligan Milligan  
11 Jan 1961 Douglas Harold Johnston Johnston  
6 Oct 1961 John Oswald Mair Hunter Hunter  
2 Oct 1962 William Grant Grant  
3 Dec 1963 Manuel Kissen Kissen  
7 Jan 1964 Walter Ian Reid Fraser
Ian Fraser, Baron Fraser of Tullybelton
Walter Ian Reid Fraser, Baron Fraser of Tullybelton was a British judge.Fraser was made a Privy Counsellor in 1974. One year later he was appointed as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, and as a Law lord he was subsequently created a life peer. He took the title Baron Fraser of Tullybelton, of Bankfoot...

Fraser  
6 Oct 1964 Ian Hamilton Shearer Avonside  
15 Jul 1965 James Graham Leechman Leechman  
25 Nov 1965 Alexander Thomson Thomson  
6 Oct 1966 Ian MacDonald Robertson
Ian Robertson, Lord Robertson
Ian MacDonald Robertson was a High Court of Justiciary judge who contributed greatly to Scottish law.-Early life:Robertson was the youngest of six children, born in Edinburgh when his father was already 66...

Robertson  
27 Oct 1967 George Gordon Stott Stott  
30 Apr 1970 George Carlyle Emslie
George Emslie, Baron Emslie
George Carlyle Emslie, Baron Emslie. PC, MBE , was a Scottish judge.Educated at the High School of Glasgow and the University of Glasgow, he was commissioned in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and served in World War II in North Africa, Italy, Greece and Austria, rising to the rank of Brigade...

Emslie  
6 Oct 1971 Alastair McPherson Johnston Dunpark  
6 Oct 1971 Henry Shanks Keith Keith  
1 Jun 1972 William Robertson Grieve Grieve  
2 Jun 1972 Alexander John Mackenzie Stuart
Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart
Alexander John Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart was a Scottish advocate and judge. He was the first judge from a United Kingdom jurisdiction to sit on the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, later becoming its President.-Early life:Jack Mackenzie Stuart, as he was widely known, was...

Mackenzie Stuart  
9 Nov 1972 David William Robert Brand Brand  
1972 Robert Smith Johnston Kincraig  
Feb 1973 Peter Maxwell Maxwell  
1973 Robert Howat McDonald McDonald  
21 Feb 1974 Norman Russell Wylie Wylie  
1975 Ewan George Francis Stewart Stewart  
1977 Donald MacArthur Ross Ross  
1977 William Stewart
William Stewart, Lord Allanbridge
William Stewart, Lord Allanbridge is a Scottish lawyer, judge and politician, who served as Solicitor General for Scotland, the country's junior Law Officer from 1972 to 1974, and as a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland, from 1977 to 1995.-Early...

Allanbridge  
1977 William Lorn Kerr Cowie Cowie  
1979 Charles Eliot Jauncey
Charles Jauncey, Baron Jauncey of Tullichettle
Charles Eliot Jauncey, Baron Jauncey of Tullichettle PC was a British judge and advocate. He was often praised as one of the finest legal minds of his generation in Scotland, and his legal opinions - both as a practising advocate and as a judge - commanded immense respect.-Biography:Jauncey was...

Jauncey of Tullichettle  
1979 Ronald King Murray Murray  
1981 Ian MacDonald Mayfield  
1983 Charles Kemp Davidson Davidson  
1984 James Peter Hymers Mackay  Clashfern  
1984 John Herbert McCluskey
John McCluskey, Baron McCluskey
John Herbert McCluskey, Baron McCluskey is a Scottish lawyer, judge and politician, who served as Solicitor General for Scotland, the country's junior Law Officer from 1974 to 1979, and as a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of Scotland's Supreme Courts, from 1984 to 2004.He was recently...

McCluskey  
1985 Alastair Malcolm Morison Morison  
1985 Ranald Ian Sutherland Sutherland  
1985 David Bruce Weir Weir  
1985 James John Clyde
James Clyde, Baron Clyde
James John Clyde, Baron Clyde PC, QC was a Scottish judge.The son of James Latham Clyde, Lord Clyde and grandson of James Avon Clyde, Lord Clyde, was educated at Edinburgh Academy, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Literae Humaniores in 1954, and at the...

Clyde  
1986 William Douglas Cullen
William Cullen, Baron Cullen of Whitekirk
William Douglas Cullen, Baron Cullen of Whitekirk, is one of the senior members of the Scottish judiciary. He formerly served as Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session, and was an additional Lord of Appeal in the House of Lords prior to the transfer of its judicial...

Cullen of Whitekirk  
1986 William David Prosser Prosser  
1987 Ian Candlish Kirkwood Kirkwood  
1987 John Taylor Cameron Coulsfield  
1988 James George Milligan Milligan  
1988 John Murray Dervaird  
1989 James Arthur David Hope
David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead
James Arthur David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead, is a Scottish judge and Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, having previously been the Second Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.-Early life:...

Hope of Craighead  
1989 Philip Isaac Caplan Caplan  
1989 Kenneth Cameron, Baron Cameron of Lochbroom
Kenneth Cameron, Baron Cameron of Lochbroom
Kenneth John Cameron, Baron Cameron of Lochbroom, is a retired Scottish judge.Born in Edinburgh, he was educated at Edinburgh Academy, at Corpus Christi, Oxford and at the University of Edinburgh. He became an Advocate in 1958 and Queen's Counsel in 1972...

Cameron  
1990 Michael Stewart Rae Bruce Marnoch  
1990 Ranald Norman Munro MacLean
Ranald MacLean, Lord MacLean
Ranald Norman Munro MacLean, Lord MacLean is a retired Scottish judge.Born on 18 December 1938, MacLean was educated at Fettes College in Edinburgh, where he was Head of School. He graduated BA from Clare College, Cambridge, LLB from the University of Edinburgh and LLM from Yale University...

MacLean  
1990 George William Penrose
George William Penrose, Lord Penrose
George William Penrose, Lord Penrose, PC is a Scottish judge and member of the Privy Council who sat in the Court of Session, the supreme civil court. He is best known for heading the Penrose Inquiry into the near-collapse of the mutual life assurance company Equitable Life. In 2001, Lord Penrose...

Penrose  
1990 Kenneth Hilton Osborne
Kenneth Osborne, Lord Osborne
Kenneth Hilton Osborne, Lord Osborne PC is a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland, sitting in the High Court of Justiciary and the Inner House of the Court of Session...

Osborne  
1992 John Alastair Cameron
John Cameron, Lord Abernethy
John Alastair Cameron, Lord Abernethy is a Scottish lawyer, and a former Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the country's Supreme Courts, serving from 1992 to 2007, when he retired...

Abernethy  
1994 Alan Charles Macpherson Johnston
Alan Johnston, Lord Johnston
Alan Charles Macpherson Johnston was a Senator of the College of Justice until his death in 2008 at the age of 66. He was appointed in 1994. He served as Chairman of the Scottish Division of the Employment Appeal Tribunal from 1996 to 2005. He graduated from Jesus College, Cambridge with a BA...

Johnston  
1994 Brian Gill
Brian Gill, Lord Gill
Brian Gill, Lord Gill is Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland, the country's second most senior judge, and Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. In February 2007 the Scottish Executive announced that Lord Gill was to head a review of Scotland's civil courts...

Gill  
1995 Arthur Campbell Hamilton
Arthur Hamilton, Lord Hamilton
Arthur Campbell Hamilton, Lord Hamilton, PC , is Scotland's most senior judge. He was chosen as Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session in November 2005, succeeding Lord Cullen.-Early life:...

Hamilton  
1995 Alan Ferguson Rodger
Alan Rodger, Baron Rodger of Earlsferry
Alan Ferguson Rodger, Baron Rodger of Earlsferry, FRSE, FBA, PC was a Scottish lawyer and Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom....

Rodger of Earlsferry  
1995 Thomas Cordner Dawson
Thomas Dawson, Lord Dawson
Thomas Cordner Dawson, Lord Dawson was a Scottish lawyer. He was Solicitor General for Scotland from 1992 until his appointment in 1995 as a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland, and held this post until his death in 2007.-Early life:Dawson was educated at...

|Dawson  
1995 Donald James Dobbie Macfadyen Macfadyen  
1996 Hazel Josephine Cosgrove
Hazel Cosgrove, Lady Cosgrove
The Right Honourable Hazel Josephine Cosgrove, Lady Cosgrove, CBE , is a Scottish lawyer, and was the first woman to be appointed a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of Scotland's Supreme Courts....

Cosgrove  
1996 William Austin Nimmo Smith
William Nimmo Smith, Lord Nimmo Smith
William Austin Nimmo Smith is a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland, sitting in the High Court of Justiciary and the Inner House of the Court of Session...

Nimmo Smith  
1996 Alexander Morrison Philip
Alexander Philip, Lord Philip
The Rt. Hon. Alexander Morrison Philip, Lord Philip is a Scottish lawyer and former Senator of the College of Justice.-Early life:...

Philip  
1997 Derek Robert Alexander Emslie
Derek Emslie, Lord Kingarth
Derek Robert Alexander Emslie, Lord Kingarth QC is a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland, sitting in the High Court of Justiciary and the Inner House of the Court of Session...

Kingarth  
1997 Iain Bonomy
Iain Bonomy, Lord Bonomy
The Rt Hon. Iain Bonomy, Lord Bonomy PC, is a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland, sitting in the High Court of Justiciary and the Inner House of the Court of Session...

Bonomy  
1997 Ronald David Mackay
Ronald Mackay, Lord Eassie
Ronald David Mackay, Lord Eassie is a Scottish lawyer and judge of the country's Supreme Courts, sitting in the Inner House of the Court of Session.-Education:...

Eassie  
1998 Robert John Reed
Robert Reed, Lord Reed
Robert John Reed, Lord Reed is a Scottish lawyer and has been a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the country's supreme courts, since 1998. He sat as the principal judge in the Commercial Court before being promoted to the Inner House of the Court of Session in 2008, and has sat as a...

Reed  
2000 John Francis Wheatley
John Wheatley, Lord Wheatley
John Francis Wheatley, Lord Wheatley is a Scottish lawyer and Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland, sitting in the High Court of Justiciary and the Inner House of the Court of Session. He is an authority on road traffic law...

Wheatley  
2000 Ann Paton
Ann Paton, Lady Paton
Ann Paton, is a Scottish lawyer and Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the country's Supreme Courts, sitting in the High Court of Justiciary and the Inner House of the Court of Session...

Paton  
2000 Colin John McLean Sutherland
Colin Sutherland, Lord Carloway
Colin John MacLean Sutherland, Lord Carloway is a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland, sitting in the High Court of Justiciary and the Inner House of the Court of Session.-Early life:...

Carloway  
2000 Matthew Gerard Clarke
Matthew Clarke, Lord Clarke
Matthew Gerald Clarke, Lord Clarke is a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland, sitting in the High Court of Justiciary and the Inner House of the Court of Session.-Early life:...

Clarke  
2000 Andrew Rutherford Hardie
Andrew Hardie, Baron Hardie
Andrew Rutherford Hardie, Baron Hardie, PC, QC is a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland, and a former Lord Advocate, the country's senior Law Officer...

Hardie  
2000 Donald Sage Mackay
Donald Mackay, Baron Mackay of Drumadoon
Donald Sage Mackay, Baron Mackay of Drumadoon, PC, QC is a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland, and a former Lord Advocate, the country's senior Law Officer. He is one of five additional Lords of Appeal in the House of Lords....

Mackay of Drumadoon  
2000 Robin Gilmour McEwan
Robin McEwan, Lord McEwan
Robin Gilmour McEwan, Lord McEwan is a Scottish lawyer and former judge of the High Court of Justiciary and Court of Session, the country's Supreme Courts.-Early life:...

McEwan  
2001 Duncan Adam Young Menzies
Duncan Menzies, Lord Menzies
Duncan Adam Young Menzies, Lord Menzies QC is a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland.-Early life:Menzies was educated at the independent Cargilfield Preparatory School in Edinburgh, before obtaining a scholarship to Glenalmond College, Perthshire...

Menzies  
2001 James Edward Drummond Young
James Drummond Young, Lord Drummond Young
James Edward Drummond Young, Lord Drummond Young QC is a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland and Chairman of the Scottish Law Commission.-Early life:...

Drummond Young  
2001 George Nigel Hannington Emslie
George Emslie, Lord Emslie
George Nigel Hannington Emslie, Lord Emslie PC is a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland. He is the son of former Lord President George Emslie, Baron Emslie, and older brother of fellow judge Derek Emslie, Lord Kingarth.-Early life:...

Emslie  
2001 Anne Smith Smith  
2002 Philip Hope Brodie Brodie  
2003 Alastair Peter Campbell
Alastair Campbell, Lord Bracadale
Alastair Peter Campbell, Lord Bracadale, QC is a Scottish advocate and Senator of the College of Justice.-Early life:Campbell was born on 18 September 1949 in Skye, Scotland, to Rev. Donald Campbell and Margaret Campbell, although his family moved to Edinburgh when he was just two years old, where...

Bracadale  
2005 Leeona June Dorrian
Leeona Dorrian, Lady Dorrian
Leeona June Dorrian, Lady Dorrian QC is a Judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland.-Early life:Dorrian was born in Edinburgh and educated at Cranley Girls' School in the city. She studied at the School of Law of the University of Aberdeen, graduating LL.B...

Dorrian  
2005 Patrick Stewart Hodge
Patrick Hodge, Lord Hodge
Patrick Stewart Hodge, Lord Hodge is a Scottish lawyer and Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the country's Supreme Courts.-Early life:...

Hodge  
2005 Iain Duncan Macphail
Iain Macphail, Lord Macphail
Iain Duncan Macphail, Lord Macphail was a Scottish lawyer and Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the country's Supreme Courts.-Early life:...

Macphail  
2005 Angus James Scott Glennie
Angus Glennie, Lord Glennie
Angus James Scott Glennie, Lord Glennie is a Senator of the College of Justice, and Principal Commercial Judge in the Court of Session, in Scotland.-Early life:...

Glennie  
2005 Alexander Featherstonhaugh Wylie
Alexander Wylie, Lord Kinclaven
Alexander Featherstonhaugh Wylie, Lord Kinclaven is a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland.-Early life:...

Kinclaven  
Jan 2006 Lynda Margaret Clark
Lynda Clark, Baroness Clark of Calton
Lynda Margaret Clark, Baroness Clark of Calton, QC is a Scottish judge. She was formerly the Labour Member of Parliament for Edinburgh Pentlands...

 
Clark of Calton  
Feb 2006 Alan Turnbull
Alan Turnbull, Lord Turnbull
Alan Turnbull, Lord Turnbull is a Scottish lawyer, and a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the country's Supreme Courts. He was one of the lead prosecutors in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial.-Early life:...

Turnbull  
2006 Sidney Neil Brailsford
Neil Brailsford, Lord Brailsford
Neil Brailsford, Lord Brailsford is a Scottish lawyer and Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the country's Supreme Courts.-Early life:...

Brailsford  
Apr 2006 Roderick Francis Macdonald
Roderick Macdonald, Lord Uist
Roderick Francis Macdonald, Lord Uist is a Scottish judge. As a Senator of the College of Justice, he is a member of the Court of Session, Scotland's highest court.-Early life:...

Uist  
2007 Colin Malcolm Campbell
Colin Campbell, Lord Malcolm
Colin Malcolm Campbell, Lord Malcolm is a Scottish lawyer, and a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the country's Supreme Courts.-Early life:...

Malcolm  
2007 Hugh Matthews
Hugh Matthews, Lord Matthews
Hugh Matthews, Lord Matthews is a Scottish lawyer, and a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the country's Supreme Courts.-Early life:...

Matthews  
Mar 2008 Stephen Errol Woolman
Stephen Woolman, Lord Woolman
Stephen Errol Woolman, Lord Woolman is a Scottish legal academic, and a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the country's Supreme Courts.-Early life:...

Woolman  
5 Nov 2008 Paul Benedict Cullen
Paul Cullen, Lord Pentland
Paul Benedict Cullen, Lord Pentland is a former Solicitor General for Scotland and a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the country's Supreme Courts.-Early life:...

Pentland  
5 Nov 2008 Iain Alexander Scott Peebles
Iain Peebles, Lord Bannatyne
Iain Peebles, Lord Bannatyne is a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the High Court of Justiciary and Court of Session in Scotland.-Career:...

Bannatyne  
5 Nov 2008 Valerie Elizabeth Stacey
Valerie Stacey, Lady Stacey
Valerie Elizabeth Stacey, Lady Stacey is a Scottish lawyer, and a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the country's Supreme Courts. She was the first woman ever elected Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Advocates.-Early life:...

Stacey  
April 2010 Colin Jack Tyre Tyre  
April 2010 Raymond Doherty Docherty  

Sources

  • An Historical Account of the Senators of the College of Justice from its Institution in MDXXXII by George Brunton and David Haig, published by Thomas Clark MDCCCXXXII - for entries 1689 to 1850 only
  • Leigh Rayment's website - for entries 1851 to present (with corrections)
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