• The Lord Chancellor of Scotland, formally titled Lord High Chancellor, was a Officer of State in the Kingdom of Scotland. The Lord Chancellor was the...
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    Kingdom. The lord chancellor is the minister of justice for England and Wales and the highest-ranking Great Officer of State in Scotland and England,...
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  • and was abolished in 1679. The Lord Chancellor of Scotland. The canghellor of medieval Wales administered the peasantry of the king's demesne and was charged...
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  • Chancellor, a senior functionary in the government of the United Kingdom Lord Chancellor of Ireland Lord Chancellor of Scotland Lord High Chancellor of...
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  • 1st Earl of Aberdeen (3 October 1637 – 20 April 1720), was a Lord Chancellor of Scotland. Gordon, born on 3 October 1637, the second son of Sir John Gordon...
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    Session from 1598 to 1604, Lord Chancellor of Scotland from 1604 to 1622 and as a Lord High Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland. Born at Seton Palace...
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  • associate justice of the United States Supreme Court Andrew Stewart, 1st Lord Avandale (c. 1420–1488), Lord Chancellor of Scotland George H. Stewart (1858–1914)...
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    The Lord High Constable is a hereditary, now ceremonial, office of Scotland. In the order of precedence of Scotland, the office traditionally ranks above...
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  • Gordon, 5th Earl of Huntly (died 19 October 1576), was Lord Chancellor of Scotland and major conspirator of his time. The second son of the 4th Earl, George...
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    of Polwarth, 2nd Baronet, Lord Chancellor of Scotland from 1696 to 1702 (the baronetcy had been created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia in 1637 for his...
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  • Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus (c. 1449–1513), Lord Chancellor of Scotland from 1493 to 1497 Chuck Douglas (born 1942), associate justice of the New Hampshire...
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  • Earl of Aberdeen (1637–1720), Lord Chancellor of Scotland George Gordon, 1st Duke of Gordon (1643–1716), Scottish peer George Gordon, 3rd Earl of Aberdeen...
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  • Earl of Huntly (1514 – 28 October 1562) was a Scottish nobleman. He was the son of John Gordon, Lord Gordon, and Margaret Stewart, daughter of James...
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    Earl of Angus (c. 1489 – 22 January 1557) was a Scottish nobleman active during the reigns of James V and Mary, Queen of Scots. He was the son of George...
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    The Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General (Scottish Gaelic: Àrd-mhorair Cùirt an t-Seisein) is the most senior judge in Scotland...
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    "Union of Parliaments". National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 19 October 2024. "James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Seafield, 1663 - 1730. Lord Chancellor". Nationalgalleries...
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  • of restoring peace and lessening English meddling in Scottish affairs. He was appointed to the Privy Council that year, and became Lord Chancellor of...
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  • Stewart, Lord Ericht (born 1963), Scottish judge, Senator of the College of Justice Andrew Stewart, 1st Lord Avandale (c. 1420–1488), Lord Chancellor of Scotland...
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    vacant. The Lord Chancellor (formally the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain) is the most senior of the Great Officers other than the Lord High Steward...
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  • and Scottish nobleman and the builder of Rosslyn Chapel, in Midlothian. In The Scots Peerage by James Balfour Paul he is designated as the 1st Lord Sinclair...
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    (c. 1420 – 1488) was Lord Chancellor of Scotland from 1460 to 1482 and one of the leading servants of King James III of Scotland. Andrew Stewart was born...
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    who served as Lord Chancellor of Scotland from 1498 to 1501. His younger son, the Hon. Adam Gordon, married Elizabeth, suo jure Countess of Sutherland....
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    use of the thumbscrew in Scotland. He was also Lord Chancellor of Scotland, 1684–1688. Drummond was a partner with William Penn in the settlement of East...
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  • Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly (died 8 June 1501) was a Scottish nobleman and Chancellor of Scotland from 1498 to 1501. George was the son of Alexander (Seton)...
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    Treasurer of Scotland from 1663 to 1667 and Lord Chancellor of Scotland from 1667 to 1681. In 1663 he obtained a new charter conferring the earldom of Rothes...
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    as Lord President of the Court of Session and as Lord Chancellor of Scotland. On 30 November 1682 he was raised to the Peerage of Scotland as Lord Haddo...
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    of Ross. Early in 1483, King James III appointed Campbell as Lord High Chancellor of Scotland and awarded him the lands of Pinkerton in the barony of...
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    vacant, the lord chief justice of the King's Bench would act as chancellor pro tempore. The last lord chief justice to serve in this way was Lord Denman in...
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    created Lord Avandale (or Avondale) in 1459 and became Lord Chancellor of Scotland from 1460 to 1482. Another son, Walter Stewart, became feudal Baron of Morphie...
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    of the vote has been described as a vote "to end Scotland's independence". The political union took effect on 1 May 1707, with the Lord Chancellor of...
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