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| 1885–1886 | Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, sixth duke of Richmond, sixth duke of Lennox, and first duke of Gordon (1818–1903) |
| 1886 (Feb–March) | George Otto Trevelyan (1838–1928) |
| 1886 March–July | John William Maule Ramsay, thirteenth earl of Dalhousie (1847–1887) |
| 1886–7 | Arthur James Balfour (1848–1930) |
| 1887–1892 | Schomberg Henry Kerr, ninth marquess of Lothian (1833–1900) |
| 1892–1895 | Sir George Otto Trevelyan, second baronet (1838–1928) |
| 1895–1903 | Alexander Hugh Bruce, sixth Lord Balfour of Burleigh (1849–1921) |
| 1903–1905 | Andrew Graham Murray (1849–1942) |
| 1905 (Feb–Dec) | John Adrian Louis Hope, seventh earl of Hopetoun and first marquess of Linlithgow (1860–1908) |
| 1905–1912 | John Sinclair, first Baron Pentland (1860–1925) |
| 1912–1916 | Thomas McKinnon Wood (1855–1927) |
| 1916 (July–Dec) | Harold John Tennant (1865–1935) |
| 1916–1922 | Robert Munro (1868–1955) |
| 1922–1924 | Ronald Crauford Munro Ferguson, Viscount Novar (1860–1934) |
| 1924 | William Adamson (1863–1936) |
| 1924–1929 | Sir John Gilmour of Lundin and Montrave, second baronet (1876–1940) |
| 1929–1931 | William Adamson (1863–1936) |
| 1931–1932 | SirArchibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair (1890–1970) |
| 1932–1936 | Sir Godfrey Pattison Collins (1875–1936) |
| 1936–1938 | Walter Elliot Elliot (1888–1958) |
| 1938–1940 | (David) John Colville (1894–1954) |
| 1940–1941 | (Alfred) Ernest Brown (1881–1962) |
| 1941–1945 | Thomas Johnston (1881–1965) |
| 1945 (May–Aug) | (Albert Edward) Harry Mayer Archibald Primrose, sixth earl of Rosebery and second earl of Midlothian (1882–1974) |
| 1945–1947 | Joseph Westwood (1884–1948) |
| 1947–1950 | Arthur Woodburn (1890–1978) |
| 1950–1951 | Hector McNeil (1907–1955) |
| 1951–1957 | James Gray Stuart (1897–1971) |
| 1957–1962 | John Scott Maclay (1905–1992) |
| 1962–1964 | Michael Antony Cristobal Noble (1913–1984) |
| 1964–1970 | William Ross (1911–1988) |
| 1970–1974 | Gordon Thomas Calthrop Campbell (1921–2005) |
| 1974–1976 | William Ross (1911–1988) |
| 1976–1979 | Bruce Millan (b. 1927) |
| 1979–1986 | George Kenneth Hotson Younger, Baron Younger of Prestwick and fourth Viscount Younger of Leckie (1931–2003) |
| 1986–1990 | Malcolm Leslie Rifkind (b. 1946) |
| 1990–1995 | Ian Bruce Lang (b. 1940) |
| 1995–1997 | Michael Bruce Forsyth (b. 1954) |
| 1997–1999 | Donald Campbell Dewar (1937–2000) |
| 1999–2001 | John Reid (b. 1947) |
| 2001–2003 | Helen Lawrie Liddell (b. 1950) |
| 2003–2006 | Alistair Maclean Darling (b. 1953) |
| 2006–2007 | Douglas Garven Alexander (b. 1967) |
| 2007–2008 | Desmond Henry (Des) Browne (b. 1952) |
| 2008–[2010] | James Francis (Jim) Murphy (b. 1967) |
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