List of deans of the Faculty of Advocates

The dean of the Faculty of Advocates, also known as the dean of faculty, is the head of the Faculty of Advocates, the independent body for advocates in Scotland. The Dean is elected by the whole membership.

List of deans of Faculty

 * 1582 to ????: John Sharp

17th-century


 * 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

18th-century


 * 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 (1758–1819)

19th-century


 * 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 (second term)
 * 1892 to 1895: Charles Pearson
 * 1895 to 1905: Alexander Asher

20th-century


 * 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 fl. 1927
 * 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

21st-century


 * 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 2020: Gordon Jackson
 * 2020 to present: Roddy Dunlop