Treasurer of Scotland

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The Treasurer was a senior post in the pre-Union government of Scotland, the Privy Council of Scotland.

The full title of the post was Lord High Treasurer, Comptroller, Collector-General and Treasurer of the New Augmentation, formed as it was from the amalgamation of four earlier offices. Of these, the Treasurer and Comptroller had originated in 1425 when the Chamberlain's financial functions were transferred to them. From 1466 the Comptroller had sole responsibility for financing the royal household to which certain revenues (the property) were appropriated, with the Treasurer being responsible for the remaining revenue (the casualty) and other expenditure. The Collector-General, created in 1562, handled the Crown's revenue from the thirds of benefices, and the Treasurer of the New Augmentation was responsible for the former church lands annexed to the Crown in 1587.

All four offices were held by the same person from 1610 onwards, but their separate titles survived the effective merging of their functions in 1635. From 1667 to 1682 the Treasury was in commission, and again from 1686 to 1708, when the separate Scottish Treasury was abolished. From 1690 the Crown nominated one person to sit in Parliament as Treasurer.

1420: Sir Walter Ogilvie of Lintrethan
....: Thomas de Myrton, Dean of Glasgow Cathedral
1430: Patrick de Ogilvie
1439: Sir Walter de Haliburton, Knt.
....: Robert Livingston, son of Sir Alexander Livingston of Callendar, Governor of the Kingdom
1440: Walter de Haliburton, 1st Lord Haliburton of Dirleton
1449: Andrew Hunter, Abbot of Melrose
1455: James Stuart, Dean of Moray
1466: Sir William Knowlys, Preceptor of Torphichen Preceptory
1473: John Laing, parson of Kenland
1480: Archibald Crawford, Abbot of Holyrood
....: Sir John Ramsay of Balmaine
1490: Henry Arnot, Abbot of Cambuskenneth
1499: Sir Robert Lundin of Balgony
1507: Sir David Beaton of Creich
1509: George Hepburn, Abbot of Arbroath, later Bishop of the Isles
....: Andrew Stewart, Bishop of Caithness
1512: Cuthbert Baillie, Commendator of Glenluce
1515: James Hepburn, Bishop of Moray
1516: Sir Walter Ogilvie of Strathearn
1517: John Campbell of Lundy
1520: Archibald Douglas of Kilspindie
1528: Robert Cairncross, Abbot of Holyrood, later Bishop of Ross
1529: Sir Robert Barton of Over Barton
1530: William Stewart, Bishop of Aberdeen
1537: Robert Cairncross, Abbot of Holyrood
1546: John Hamilton, brother of Regent, Abbot of Paisley, later Bishop of St Andrews
1548: Sir James Kirkaldie of Grange
1555: Gilbert Kennedy, 3rd Earl of Cassilis
1561: Robert Richardson, Commendator of St Mary Isle
1564: William Stewart, Provost of Lincluden
1572: William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie
1584: John Graham, 3rd Earl of Montrose^[1]
1585: Sir Thomas Lyon of Auldbar, Master of Glamis
1595: Walter Stewart, 1st Lord Blantyre
1599: Alexander Elphinstone, 4th Lord Elphinstone
1601: Sir George Hume, 1st Earl of Dunbar
1611: Sir Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset
1616: John Erskine, 2nd Earl of Mar
3 Apr 1630: William Douglas, 7th Earl of Morton
21 May 1636: John Stewart, 1st Earl of Traquair
17 Nov 1641: in commission

John Campbell, 1st Earl of Loudoun, Lord Chancellor

Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll

William Cunningham, 8th Earl of Glencairn

John Lindsay, 1st Earl of Lindsay

Sir James Carmichael

23 Jul 1644: John Lindsay, Earl of Crawford and Lindsay, dismissed 13 Feb 1649
1660: in commission

John Lindsay, Earl of Crawford and Lindsay

John Leslie, 7th Earl of Rothes

19 Jan 1661: John Lindsay reappointed
4 Jun 1663: John Leslie, 7th Earl of Rothes - appt Chancellor 16 Apt 1667
20 Jun 1667: in commission

John Leslie, 7th Earl of Rothes, Lord Chancellor

John, Earl of Lauderdale

John Hay, 2nd Earl of Tweeddale

Alexander Bruce, 2nd Earl of Kincardine

John, Lord Cochrane (eldest son of Earl of Dundonald)

Sir Robert Murray, Lord Justice Clerk

incomplete

1 May 1682: William Douglas, Marquess of Queensberry, later Duke
24 Feb 1686: in commission

^ The Complete Peerage. London: The St. Catherine Press. 1936, 9:148.

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