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Her Majesty's Solicitor General for Scotland (Àrd-neach-lagha a' Chrùin an Alba) is one of the Law Officers of the Crown

Law Officers of the Crown

The Law Officers of the Crown are the chief legal advisers to the Crown, and advise and represent the various governments in the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth Realms. In England and Wales, Northern Ireland and most Commonwealth and colonial governments, the chief law officer of the...

, and the deputy of the Lord Advocate

Lord Advocate

Her Majesty's Advocate , known as the Lord Advocate , is the chief legal officer of the Scottish Government and the Crown in Scotland for both civil and criminal matters that fall within the devolved powers of the Scottish Parliament...

, whose duty is to advise the Crown

The Crown

The Crown is a corporation sole that in the Commonwealth realms and any provincial or state sub-divisions thereof represents the legal embodiment of governance, whether executive, legislative, or judicial...

and the Scottish Government on Scots Law

Scots law

Scots law is the legal system of Scotland. It is considered a hybrid or mixed legal system as it traces its roots to a number of different historical sources. With English law and Northern Irish law it forms the legal system of the United Kingdom; it shares with the two other systems some...

. They are also responsible for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service which together constitute the Criminal Prosecution Service in Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

.

Until 1999, when the Scottish Parliament

Scottish Parliament

The Scottish Parliament is the devolved national, unicameral legislature of Scotland, located in the Holyrood area of the capital, Edinburgh. The Parliament, informally referred to as "Holyrood", is a democratically elected body comprising 129 members known as Members of the Scottish Parliament...

and Scottish Executive

Scottish Executive

The Scottish Government is the executive arm of the devolved government of Scotland. It was established in 1999 as the Scottish Executive, from the extant Scottish Office, and the term Scottish Executive remains its legal name under the Scotland Act 1998...

were created, the Lord Advocate

Lord Advocate

and the Solicitor General for Scotland advised the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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Government. Since their transfer to the Scottish Government, the United Kingdom Government has been advised on Scots Law

Scots law

by the Advocate General for Scotland

Advocate General for Scotland

Her Majesty's Advocate General for Scotland is one of the Law Officers of the Crown, whose duty it is to advise the Crown and UK Government on Scots law...

List of Solicitors General for Scotland

List from 1696. Until 1764, the office was at times held jointly.

Pre-Union

1696-1700: Sir 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...
1701-1706: Sir David Dalrymple of Hailes
1701-1709: William Carmichael
William Carmichael
William Carmichael was an American statesman and diplomat from Maryland during and after the Revolutionary War. He participated in Benjamin Franklin's mission to Paris in 1776-8, represented Maryland in the Continental Congress in 1778 and 1779 and was the principal diplomat for the United States...

Post-Union

1709-1714: Thomas Kennedy*
1709-1714: Sir James Steuart, Bt.
Baronet
A baronet or the rare female equivalent, a baronetess , is the holder of a hereditary baronetcy awarded by the British Crown...

*
1714-1716: John Carnegie of Boyseck
1714-1717: Sir James Steuart, Bt.*
1717-1720: 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...

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1720-1721: Walter Stewart
1721-1733: 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...
1721-1725: Charles Binning
1725-1737: Charles Erskine*
1737: William Grant of Prestongrange
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...

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1742: 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....

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1746: Patrick Haldane of Gleneagles & Alexander Hume
1755: Andrew Pringle of Alemore
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...
1759: 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....

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1760: James Montgomery
Sir James Montgomery, 1st Baronet
Sir James William Montgomery, 1st Baronet was a Scottish politician and judge.Called to the bar in 1743, he was sheriff of Peeblesshire from 1748 and joint Solicitor General for Scotland from 1760, holding the office solely from 1764. He was promoted to Lord Advocate in 1766. He was created Lord...

* & Frances Garden
1764: James Montgomery
Sir James Montgomery, 1st Baronet
Sir James William Montgomery, 1st Baronet was a Scottish politician and judge.Called to the bar in 1743, he was sheriff of Peeblesshire from 1748 and joint Solicitor General for Scotland from 1760, holding the office solely from 1764. He was promoted to Lord Advocate in 1766. He was created Lord...

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1766: Henry Dundas
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville PC and Baron Dunira was a Scottish lawyer and politician. He was the first Secretary of State for War and the last person to be impeached in the United Kingdom....

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1775: Alexander Murray
1783: Ilay Campbell* & Alexander Wight
1784: Robert Dundas
Robert Dundas of Arniston
-Background:Part of a remarkable Scottish legal and political dynasty, Dundas was the son of Robert Dundas, Lord Arniston, the younger. His great-grandfather Robert Dundas had been an MP and judge, as were his grandfather Robert Dundas, Lord Arniston, the elder....

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1789: Robert Blair
1806: 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...
1807: David Boyle
1811: David Monypenny
1813: 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...

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1816: James Wedderburn
1822: John Hope
John Hope (Scottish judge)
John Hope , Scottish judge, eldest son of Charles Hope, Lord President of the Court of Session, was born on 26 May 1794, and received some part of his education at the High School of Edinburgh....
1830: Henry Cockburn
1834: Andrew Skene
1834: 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....

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1835: John Cunninghame
1837: Andrew Rutherfurd*
1839: 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...
1840: 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...
1841: 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....

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1842: 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....

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1846: 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...
1850: 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...

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1851: John Cowan
1851: George Deas
1852: 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 ....

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1852: Charles Neaves
Charles Neaves
Charles Neaves, Lord Neaves FRSE was a Scottish advocate, judge, theologian and writer. He served as Solicitor General , as a judge of the Court of Session, the supreme court of Scotland , and as Rector of the University of St Andrews .Neaves was known as one of the early analysts of the history...
1853: Robert Handyside
1853: James Craufurd
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...
1855: Thomas Mackenzie
1855: Edward Maitland
Edward Maitland, Lord Barcaple
Edward Francis Maitland, Lord Barcaple was a Scottish judge.The brother of Thomas Maitland, Lord Dundrennan, he became an advocate in 1831, and served in government as Solicitor General for Scotland from 1855–1858 and from 1859–1862...
1858: 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...

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1858: 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....

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1859: 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...

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1859: Edward Maitland
Edward Maitland, Lord Barcaple
Edward Francis Maitland, Lord Barcaple was a Scottish judge.The brother of Thomas Maitland, Lord Dundrennan, he became an advocate in 1831, and served in government as Solicitor General for Scotland from 1855–1858 and from 1859–1862...
1862: George Young*
1866: Edward Strathearn Gordon
Edward Gordon, Baron Gordon of Drumearn
Edward Strathearn Gordon, Baron Gordon of Drumearn was a Scottish judge and politician.Educated at the University of Glasgow and Edinburgh University he was called to the Scottish bar in 1835. He was appointed Solicitor General for Scotland from 1866 to 1867, and Lord Advocate from 1867 to 1868...

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1867: 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....
1868: George Young*
1869: 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...
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....
1874: William Watson
William Watson, Baron Watson
William Watson, Baron Watson PC, LL.D was a Scottish lawyer and Conservative Party politician. He was Lord Advocate, the most senior Law Officer in Scotland, from 1876 to 1880, and was then appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.-Early life:Watson was born in 1827, the son of the Reverend Thomas...

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1876: John Macdonald*
1880: John 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....

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1881: Alexander Asher
Alexander Asher
Alexander Asher was a Scottish politician.Educated at Edinburgh University, he was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1861 and was appointed an Advocate Depute in 1870....

1885: James 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....

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1886: Alexander Asher
Alexander Asher
Alexander Asher was a Scottish politician.Educated at Edinburgh University, he was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1861 and was appointed an Advocate Depute in 1870....
1886: James 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....

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1888: 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...
1890: Sir Charles Pearson*
1891: Andrew 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...

*
1892: Alexander Asher
Alexander Asher
Alexander Asher was a Scottish politician.Educated at Edinburgh University, he was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1861 and was appointed an Advocate Depute in 1870....
1894: Thomas Shaw
Thomas Shaw, 1st Baron Craigmyle
Thomas Shaw, 1st Baron Craigmyle PC KC LLD , known as Lord Shaw from 1909 to 1929, was a Scottish Liberal politician and judge....

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1895: Andrew 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...

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1896: Charles Dickson*
1903: David Dundas
1905: Edward Theodore Salvesen
Edward Theodore Salvesen
Edward Theodore Salvesen, Lord Salvesen PC QC LLD was a Scottish lawyer, politician and judge.-Biography:...
1905: James Avon Clyde*
1905: 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....

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1909: 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....
1910: 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...
1911: Andrew Anderson
1913: Thomas Morison
Thomas Brash Morison
Sir Thomas Brash Morison was a Scottish politician and judge.Morison was born in Edinburgh. He went to Edinburgh University where he obtained MA and LL.D degrees. He was called to the bar in Scotland in 1891 and then in England in 1899. He was knighted in 1906...

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1920: Charles David Murray*
1922: Andrew Constable
Andrew Constable, Lord Constable
Andrew Henderson Briggs Constable, Lord Constable, CBE, KC , was a Scottish Conservative politician and judge....
1922: William Watson
William Watson, Baron Thankerton
William Watson, Baron Thankerton was a Scottish politician and judge.Watson was the son of William Watson, Baron Watson, and was educated at Winchester and Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating with a third class degree in law in 1895. He was admitted as an advocate in 1899, taking silk in 1914...

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1922: David Fleming
1923: Frederick Thomson
1924: John Charles Fenton
John Charles Fenton
Sir John Charles Fenton was a Scottish lawyer.The son of James Fenton, Edinburgh, and Elizabeth Jack, he was educated at George Watson's College, Edinburgh, at Edinburgh University and at the Sorbonne...
1924: David Fleming
1926: Alexander Munro MacRobert
Alexander Munro MacRobert
Alexander Munro MacRobert KC was a Scottish lawyer and Unionist politician.Educated at Paisley Grammar School, Edinburgh University and the University of Glasgow he became an advocate in 1897. He worked with the Admiralty in 1917-18 and as an Advocate Depute from 1919 to 1923. He was appointed...

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1929: Wilfrid 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...

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1929: John Charles Watson
1931: Wilfrid 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...

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1933: Douglas Jamieson*
1935: Thomas Mackay Cooper
1935: Albert Russell
1936: James Reid
James Reid, Baron Reid
James Scott Cumberland Reid, Baron Reid, CH, KC FRSE was a Scottish Unionist politician and judge. His reputation is as one of the most outstanding judges of the 20th century....
1941: Sir 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....
1945: Daniel Patterson Blades
1947: John Wheatley*
1947: Douglas Johnston
Douglas Johnston, Lord Johnston
Douglas Harold Johnston TD was a Scottish Advocate, politician and Judge. He served as a Minister in the government of Clement Attlee and ended his career as a Senator of the College of Justice...
1951: William Rankine Milligan*
1955: William Grant
William Grant (politician)
William Grant was a Scottish Tory politician and judge.Educated at Fettes College, Oriel College, Oxford and Edinburgh University, he was admitted as an advocate in 1935...

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1960: David Anderson
David Colville Anderson
David Colville Anderson, VRD, QC was a Scottish law lecturer, advocate, Unionist MP, Solicitor General for Scotland, and judge, whose career ended in scandal....
1964: Norman Wylie* (April to October)
1964: James Graham Leechman
1965: Henry Wilson
Henry Wilson, Baron Wilson of Langside
Henry Stephen Wilson, Baron Wilson of Langside PC QC was a Scottish lawyer, Labour politician and life peer....

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1967: Ewan George Francis Stewart
1970: David William Robert Brand
1972: 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...
1974: Lord 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...
1979: Nicholas Fairbairn
Nicholas Fairbairn
Sir Nicholas Hardwick Fairbairn, QC was a British politician.He was the Conservative Member of Parliament for Kinross and Western Perthshire, elected in 1974 and 1979, and Perth and Kinross, elected 1983, 1987, and 1992. He was Solicitor General for Scotland from 1979 to 1982...
1982: Peter Fraser
Peter Fraser, Baron Fraser of Carmyllie
Peter Lovat Fraser, Baron Fraser of Carmyllie, PC, QC is a Scottish politician and advocate.He was educated at Loretto School, Musselburgh, East Lothian, and graduated BA and LLM , Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, before going to the University of Edinburgh...

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1989: Alan Rodger*
1992: Thomas 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...
1995: Donald 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....

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1995: Paul Cullen
1997: Colin Boyd
Colin Boyd, Baron Boyd of Duncansby
Colin Boyd, Baron Boyd of Duncansby, PC, QC, was Lord Advocate for Scotland from 24 February 2000 until his resignation on 4 October 2006. On 11 April 2006, Downing Street announced that Colin Boyd would take a seat as a crossbench life peer; however he took the Labour whip after resigning as...

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2000: Neil Davidson
Neil Davidson, Baron Davidson of Glen Clova
Neil Forbes Davidson, Baron Davidson of Glen Clova, QC is a Scottish lawyer and former Advocate General for Scotland.-Background:...
2001: Elish Angiolini*
2006: John Beckett
John Beckett (lawyer)
John Beckett QC is a Scottish lawyer who was Solicitor General for Scotland, the country's junior Law Officer from October 2006 to May 2007. He was appointed by Labour First Minister Jack McConnell on the appointment of former Solicitor General Elish Angiolini to the senior role of Lord Advocate...
2007: Frank Mulholland
Frank Mulholland
Frank Mulholland QC is a Scottish lawyer and has been Lord Advocate, one of the Great Officers of State of Scotland and the country's chief Law Officer, since 19 May 2011, having previously been Solicitor General, the junior Law Officer...

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2011: Lesley Thomson
Lesley Thomson
Lesley Thomson is the Solicitor General for Scotland, one of the two law officers of the Scottish Government.She has 25 years' experience as a prosecutor, including as district procurator fiscal for Selkirk, district procurator fiscal for Edinburgh, and interim area procurator fiscal for Lothian &...

* = served later as Lord Advocate
Lord Advocate
Her Majesty's Advocate , known as the Lord Advocate , is the chief legal officer of the Scottish Government and the Crown in Scotland for both civil and criminal matters that fall within the devolved powers of the Scottish Parliament...

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