List of Deans of the Faculty of Advocates

List of Deans of Faculty

• 1582 to ????: John Sharp

• 1655 to ????: John Nisbet
• 1661 to ????: John Ellis of Elliston
• 1664 to ????: Robert Sinclair of Longformacus
• 1672 to ????: George Lockhart
• 1675 to ????: Sir Andrew Birnie. Later Lord Saline.
• 1680 to ????: Sir John Dalrymple
• 1682 to 1689: George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh
• 1690 to ????: Sir John Dalrymple
• 1691 to ????: Sir Robert Colt
• 1694 to 1695: Sir James Stewart
• 1695 to 1698: Hew Dalrymple
• 1698 to >1708: Robert Bennet

• 1698 to >1708: Robert Bennet
• 1712 to 1721: Sir David Dalrymple
• 1721 to 1722: Robert Dundas of Arniston, the Elder
• 1722 to 1746: ??
• 1746 to 1760: Robert Dundas of Arniston, the younger
• 1760 to 1764: James Ferguson
• 1764 to 1775: Alexander Lockhart
• ???? to 1785: Henry Dundas
• 1785 to 1795: Henry Erskine
• 1796 to ????: Robert Dundas

• 1801 to 1808: Robert Blair
• 1808 to 1823: Matthew Ross of Candie
• 1823 to 1826: George Cranstoun
• 1826 to ????: Sir James Wellwood Moncreiff, 9th Baronet
• 1829: Francis Jeffrey
• 1830 to 1841: John Hope
• 1842 to 1843: Patrick Robertson
• 1843 to 1851: Duncan McNeill
• 1852: John Marshall
• 1852 to 1858: ??
• 1858 to 1869: James Moncreiff
• 1868 to 1874: Edward Gordon
• 1874 to 1875: Andrew Rutherfurd-Clark
• 1875 to 1876: William Watson
• 1877: Robert Horne
• 1878 to 1881: Patrick Fraser
• 1881: Alexander Kinnear
• 1882 to 1885: John Macdonald
• 1885 to 1886: John Balfour
• 1886 to 1889: ??
• 1889 to 1892: John Balfour
• 1892 to 1895: Charles Pearson
• 1895 to 1905: Alexander Asher

• 1895 to 1905: Alexander Asher
• 1905 to 1908: William Campbell
• 1908 to 1915: Charles Dickson
• 1915 to 1918: James Avon Clyde
• 1919 to 1920: Charles Murray
• 1920 to 1922: Andrew Constable
• Condie Sandeman
• 1932 to 1936: Sir William Chree
• 1936 to 1937: James Keith
• 1937 to 1939: William Donald Patrick
• 1939 to 1945: James Gordon McIntyre, Lord Sorn
• 1945 to 1948: James Reid
• 1948 to 1955: John Cameron
• 1955 to 1957: Christopher Guest
• 1957: Charles Shaw
• 1959 to 1964: Ian Fraser
• 1964 to 1965: Alexander Thomson
• 1965 to 1970: George Emslie
• 1970 to 1972: Robert Smith Johnston
• 1973 to 1976: Donald Ross
• 1976 to 1979: James Mackay
• 1979 to 1983: Charles Kemp Davidson
• 1983 to 1986: William Prosser
• 1986 to 1989: David Hope
• 1989 to 1994: Alan Johnston
• 1994 to 1997: Andrew Hardie
• 1997 to 2001: Nigel Emslie

• 1997 to 2001: Nigel Emslie
• 2001 to 2004: Colin Campbell
• 2004 to 2007: Robert Logan "Roy" Martin
• 2007 to 2014: Richard Keen
• 2014 to 2016: James Wolffe
• 2016 to present: Gordon Jackson