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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Earl Castle Stewart (redirect from Lord Castle Stewart)
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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