Solicitor General for Scotland

Her Majesty's Solicitor General for Scotland (Àrd-neach-lagha a' Chrùin an Alba) is one of the Law Officers of the Crown, and the deputy of the Lord Advocate, whose duty is to advise the Crown and the Scottish Government on Scots Law. They are also responsible for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service which together constitute the Criminal Prosecution Service in Scotland.

Until 1999, when the Scottish Parliament and Scottish Executive were created, the Lord Advocate and the Solicitor General for Scotland advised the United Kingdom Government. Since their transfer to the Scottish Government, the United Kingdom Government has been advised on Scots Law by the Advocate General for Scotland.

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
1701-1706: Sir David Dalrymple of Hailes
1701-1709: William Carmichael

Post-Union

1709-1714: Thomas Kennedy
1709-1714: Sir James Steuart, Bt..
1714-1716: John Carnegie of Boyseck
1714-1717: Sir James Steuart, Bt..
1717-1720: Robert Dundas
1720-1721: Walter Stewart
1721-1733: John Sinclair
1721-1725: Charles Binning
1725-1737: Charles Erskine
1737-1742: William Grant of Prestongrange
1742-1746: Robert Dundas
1746-1755: Patrick Haldane of Gleneagles
1746-1755: Alexander Hume
1755-1759: Andrew Pringle of Alemore
1759-1760: Thomas Miller
1760-1764: James Montgomery
1760-1764: Frances Garden
1764-1766: James Montgomery
1766-1775: Henry Dundas
1775-1783: Alexander Murray
1783-1783: Ilay Campbell of Succoth
1783-1784: Alexander Wight
1784: Robert Dundas
1789: Robert Blair
1806: John Clerk
1807: David Boyle
1811: David Monypenny
1813: Alexander Maconochie
1816: James Wedderburn
1822: John Hope
1830: Henry Cockburn
1834: Andrew Skene
1834: Duncan McNeill
1835: John Cunninghame
1837: Andrew Rutherfurd
1839: James Ivory
1840: Thomas Maitland
1841: Duncan McNeill
1842: Adam Anderson
1846: Thomas Maitland
1850: James Moncreiff
1851: John Cowan
1851: George Deas
1852: John Inglis
1852: Charles Neaves
1853: Robert Handyside
1853: James Craufurd
1855: Thomas Mackenzie
1855: Edward Francis Maitland
1858: Charles Baillie
1858: David Mure
1859: George Patton
1859: Edward Francis Maitland
1862: George Young
1866: Edward Strathearn Gordon
1867: John Millar
1868: George Young
1869: Andrew Rutherfurd-Clark
1874: John Millar
1874: William Watson
1876: John Hay Athole Macdonald
1880: John Blair Balfour
1881: Alexander Asher
1885: James Patrick Bannerman Robertson
1886: Alexander Asher
1886: James Patrick Bannerman Robertson
1888: Moir Tod Stormonth Darling
1890: Sir Charles Pearson
1891: Andrew Graham Murray
1892: Alexander Asher
1894: Thomas Shaw
1895: Andrew Graham Murray
1896: Charles Scott Dickson
1903: David Dundas
1905: Edward Theodore Salvesen
1905: James Avon Clyde
1905: Alexander Ure
1909: Arthur Dewar
1910: William Hunter
1911: Andrew Macbeth Anderson, Lord Anderson
1913: Thomas Morison
1920: Charles David Murray
1922: Andrew Constable
1922: William Watson
1922: David Pinkerton Fleming
1923: Frederick Charles Thomson
1924: John Charles Fenton
1924: David Pinkerton Fleming
1926: Alexander Munro MacRobert
1929: Wilfrid Guild Normand
1929: John Charles Watson
1931: Wilfrid Guild Normand
1933: Douglas Jamieson
1935: Thomas Mackay Cooper
1935: Albert Russell
1936: James Scott Cumberland Reid
1941: Sir David King Murray
1945: Daniel Patterson Blades
1947: John Wheatley
1947: Douglas Johnston
1951: William Rankine Milligan
1955: William Grant
1960: David Anderson
1964: Norman Wylie (April to October)
1964: James Graham Leechman
1965: Henry Stephen Wilson
1967: Ewan George Francis Stewart
1970: David William Robert Brand
1972: William Ian Stewart
1974: John McCluskey
1979: Nicholas Fairbairn
1982: Peter Fraser, Lord Fraser of Carmyllie
1989: Alan Rodger
1992: Thomas Dawson
1995: Donald Mackay, Lord Mackay of Drumadoon
1995: Paul Cullen
1997: Colin Boyd
2000: Neil Davidson
2001: Elish Angiolini
2006: John Beckett
2007: Frank Mulholland QC

References

The above list is taken from Haydn's Book of Dignities, 12th edition (1894, reprinted 1969) and from Oxford Companion to Law, Clarendon Press, 1980.