Lord Lieutenant of Fife
This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Fife.
- Colin Lindsay, 3rd Earl of Balcarres 1688 – ?[1]
- John Leslie, 10th Earl of Rothes 1746 – ?[2]
- George Lindsay-Crawford, 22nd Earl of Crawford 17 March 1794 – 1807
- Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin 7 March 1807 – 1807
- George Lindsay-Crawford, 22nd Earl of Crawford 20 May 1807 – 30 June 1808
- George Douglas, 16th Earl of Morton 18 July 1808 – 1824
- Thomas Erskine, 9th Earl of Kellie 11 June 1824 – 6 February 1828
- James St Clair-Erskine, 2nd Earl of Rosslyn 23 February 1828 – 18 January 1837
- Robert Ferguson 14 February 1837 – 3 December 1840
- Captain James Erskine Wemyss RN 17 December 1840 – 3 April 1854
- James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin 22 April 1854 – 20 November 1863
- James Hay Erskine Wemyss 30 January 1864 – 29 March 1864
- Sir Robert Anstruther, 5th Baronet 11 June 1864 – 21 April 1886
- Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin 5 August 1886 – 18 January 1917
- Sir William Robertson 21 May 1917 – 27 February 1923
- Sir Ralph Anstruther, 6th Baronet 29 March 1923 – 30 September 1934
- Edward James Bruce, 10th Earl of Elgin 5 January 1935 – 1965
- Sir John McWilliam 20 January 1965 – 7 August 1974
- William Anstruther-Gray, Baron Kilmany 1 January 1975 – 1980
- Sir John Gilmour, 3rd Baronet 28 February 1980 – 1987
- Andrew Bruce, 11th Earl of Elgin 11 December 1987 – 1999
- Margaret Dean 13 September 1999 – 2015
- Robert William Balfour 22 January 2015– present[3]
References
- Sainty, J. C. "Lieutenants and Lord-Lieutenants of Counties (Scotland) 1794-". Retrieved 10 February 2018.
- Henderson, Thomas Finlayson (1893). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 33. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 286–288.
- Paton, Henry; Spain, Jonathan (23 September 2004). "Leslie, John, tenth earl of Rothes". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/16497. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- "No. 27525". The Edinburgh Gazette. 23 February 2015. p. 277.
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