Office Holders

Justiciars

• Argadus, Captain of Argyll, in the reign of Ethodius
• Comes Dunetus; in the reign of King William the Lion (who d. 1214).
• Donnchad II, Earl of Fife
• William Comyn
• Richard Comyn
• David, Earl of Huntingdon (d. 1219)
• Walter Clifford, Justiciary of the Lothians
• 1216: Allan, Justiciary to King Alexander II
• 1224: William Cumin, Earl of Buchan (reign of Alexander III)
• Walter (d. 1241), son of Allan High Steward of Scotland
• 1239: William, Earl of Ross, "Lord Chief Justice of Scotland"
• 1243: David de Lindsay, Justiciary of the Lothians
• Alexander (d.1283), High Steward of Scotland to King Alexander II
• Hugo de Barclay, Justiciary of the Lothians
• 1253: Alexander Cumin, Earl of Buchan
• bef 1319: Sir Robert de Lawedre of The Bass (d. Sept 1337), Justiciary of the Lothians
• 1328: Sir Robert Lauder of Quarrelwood (d. between 1367-70), Justiciary North of the Forth
• 1366: Robert de Erskine, Justiciary South of the Forth for King David II
• bef 1372: Alan de Lawedre of The Bass, Whitslaid, & Haltoun, Justiciary South of the Forth, (he received a pension for holding this post in 1374).
• 1372: Sir William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas (d. May 1384), Justiciary South of the Forth.
• 1425: Sir Robert de Lawedre of Edrington & The Bass (d.1451), "Justiciario Scotia"
• 1446: Patrick de Ogilvy, Justiciary South of the Forth
• 1457: John, Lord Lindsay of the Byres, Justiciary South of the Forth
• William Sinclair, 3rd Earl of Orkney & Caithness (d.1480), Justiciary North of the Forth for King James II
• 1477: John Haldane of Gleneagles, Justiciary North of the Forth
• Patrick Hepburn, 1st Lord Hailes (d. after 1482), and Robert, 2nd Lord Lyle, Justiciaries South of the Forth
• Andrew, Earl of Crawfurd, and George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly, Justiciaries North of the Forth
• 1488: Robert, 2nd Lord Lyle d.c1497), "Lord Chief Justice"
• 1489: John Lyon, 3rd Lord Glamis (d. 1 April 1497), and John Drummond, 1st Lord Drummond: "Justice-General"
• 1492: Robert, 2nd Lord Lyle, and John Lyon, 3rd Lord Glamis
• 1494: John Drummond, 1st Lord Drummond (d. c1519)
• 1504: Andrew Gray, 2nd Lord Gray, and John Kennedy, 2nd Lord Kennedy
• 1514: Colin Campbell, 3rd Earl of Argyll
• 1526: Archibald Douglas of Kilspindie
• 1537: Archibald Campbell, 4th Earl of Argyll
• 1567: Sir Colin Campbell, 6th Earl of Argyll, (d.1584) (heritably)
• 1578: Sir Colin Campbell, 6th Earl of Argyll, (re-appointment?)
• 1589: Archibald Campbell, 7th Earl of Argyll, (who exchanged the heritable office of Lord Chief Justice in 1607, for the heritable Lieutenancy of Argyll and Lorn, and most of The Isles).
• 1628: William Graham, 7th Earl of Menteith, 1st Earl of Airth
• 1638: Sir William Elphinstone
• 1641: Sir Thomas Hope, younger of Kerse
• 1646: William Cunningham, 8th Earl of Glencairn
• 1649: John Kennedy, 6th Earl of Cassilis

Lord Justice-General