Lord Lieutenant of Fife

This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Fife .

Lord Lieutenants

• Colin Lindsay, 3rd Earl of Balcarres 1688 – ? ^[1]
• John Leslie, 10th Earl of Rothes 1746 – ? ^[2]
• George Lindsay-Crawford, 22nd Earl of Crawford 17 March 1794 – 1807
• Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin 7 March 1807 – 1807
• George Lindsay-Crawford, 22nd Earl of Crawford 20 May 1807 – 30 June 1808
• George Douglas, 16th Earl of Morton 18 July 1808 – 1824
• Thomas Erskine, 9th Earl of Kellie 11 June 1824 – 6 February 1828
• James St Clair-Erskine, 2nd Earl of Rosslyn 23 February 1828 – 18 January 1837
• Robert Ferguson 14 February 1837 – 3 December 1840
• Captain James Erskine Wemyss RN 17 December 1840 – 3 April 1854
• James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin 22 April 1854 – 20 November 1863
• James Hay Erskine Wemyss 30 January 1864 – 29 March 1864
• Sir Robert Anstruther, 5th Baronet 11 June 1864 – 21 April 1886
• Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin 5 August 1886 – 18 January 1917
• Sir William Robertson 21 May 1917 – 27 February 1923
• Sir Ralph Anstruther, 6th Baronet 29 March 1923 – 30 September 1934
• Edward James Bruce, 10th Earl of Elgin 5 January 1935 – 1965
• Sir John McWilliam 20 January 1965 – 7 August 1974
• William Anstruther-Gray, Baron Kilmany 1 January 1975 – 1980 ^[3]
• Sir John Gilmour, 3rd Baronet 28 February 1980 – 1987
• Andrew Bruce, 11th Earl of Elgin 11 December 1987 – 1999
• Margaret Dean 13 September 1999 – 2015
• Robert William Balfour 22 January 2015– present ^[4]

Deputy lieutenants

A deputy lieutenant of Fife is commissioned by the Lord Lieutenant of Fife. Deputy lieutenants support the work of the lord-lieutenant. There can be several deputy lieutenants at any time, depending on the population of the county. Their appointment does not terminate with the changing of the lord-lieutenant, but they usually retire at age 75.

19th Century

• 5 March 1831: Lord William Robert Keith Douglas ^[5]
• 5 March 1831: Lieutenant General Alexander Bethune ^[5]
• 5 March 1831: Francis Balfour ^[5]
• 5 March 1831: Onesiphorus Tyndal Bruce ^[5]
• 5 March 1831: David Wemyss ^[5]
• 5 March 1831: John Fergus ^[5]
• 5 March 1831: Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Webster ^[5]
• 5 March 1831: Robert Douglas ^[5]
• 5 March 1831: John Stuart ^[5]
• 5 March 1831: Rear Admiral Sir Frederick Lewis Maitland ^[5]

References

• Sainty, J. C. "Lieutenants and Lord-Lieutenants of Counties (Scotland) 1794-" . Retrieved 10 February 2018.

1. Henderson, Thomas Finlayson (1893). "Lindsay, Colin"  . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 33. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 286–288.
2. Paton, Henry; Spain, Jonathan (23 September 2004). "Leslie, John, tenth earl of Rothes". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/16497.(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
3. "No. 19599". The Edinburgh Gazette . 17 January 1975. p. 55.
4. "No. 27525". The Edinburgh Gazette. 23 February 2015. p. 277.
5. "No. 18793". The London Gazette . 15 April 1831. p. 716.