Solicitor General for Scotland
John Carnegie
March 1714
October 1714
Henry Dundas
1766
1775
Alexander Murray
May 1775
February 1783
Sir David Dundas
1846
1848
Thomas Maitland
1846
1850
James Moncrieff
1850
1851
George Young
1862
1866
Edward Strathearn Gordon
12 July 1866
1867
George Young
1868
1869
William Watson
1874
1876
John Hay Athole Macdonald
1876
1880
John Blair Balfour
1880
1881
Alexander Asher
July 1881
1885
James Patrick Bannerman Robertson
1885
1886
James Patrick Bannerman Robertson
1886
1891
Alexander Asher
5 February 1886
1886
Moir Tod Stormonth-Darling
1888
1890
Sir Charles John Pearson
12 November 1890
1 October 1891
Andrew Graham Murray
1 October 1891
1892
Dr Alexander Asher
August 1892
1894
Thomas Shaw
1894
1895
Andrew Graham Murray
7 July 1895
1896
Charles Scott Dickson
14 May 1896
1903
David Dundas
1903
1905
Alexander Ure
1905
1909
Edward Theodore Salvesen
February 1905
October 1905
James Avon Clyde
October 1905
December 1905
Arthur Dewar
February 1909
April 1910
William Hunter
April 1910
December 1911
Andrew Macbeth Anderson
December 1911
October 1913
Sir Thomas Brash Morison
October 1913
1920
Charles David Murray
March 1920
March 1922
David Pinkerton Fleming
1922
1923
Ernest Alan Fitch
1922
1923
Frederick Charles Thomson
April 1923
1924
Ernest Alan Fitch
1924
1925
David Pinkerton Fleming
1924
1926
Rt Hon Alexander Munro MacRobert
December 1925
May 1929
Rt Hon Thomas Mackay Cooper
1935
1935
James Scott Cumberland Reid
June 1936
June 1941
Daniel Paterson Blades
20 September 1945
Rt Hon John Thomas Wheatley
25 March 1947
October 1947
Douglas Harold Johnston
October 1947
October 1951
William Rankine Milligan
November 1951
December 1954
William Grant
13 January 1955
April 1960
David Colville Anderson
13 May 1960
March 1964
Norman Russell Wylie
April 1964
October 1964
Ewan George Francis Stewart
24 October 1967
Nicholas Hardwick Fairbairn, Baron of Fordell
May 1979
21 January 1982
Peter Lovat Fraser
21 January 1982
1989
Alan Ferguson Rodger
1989
1992
Donald Sage Mackay, Baron Mackay of Drumadoon
4 May 1995
7 November 1995
Paul Benedict Cullen
1996
2 May 1997
Colin David Boyd
1997
2000