Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire

This is a list of people who have served as the Monarch's Lord Lieutenant in the County of Kincardine .

• Sir James Carnegie, 3rd Baronet April 1746 – 30 April 1765 ^[1]
• Anthony Keith-Falconer, 5th Earl of Kintore 17 March 1794 – 30 August 1804
• John Arbuthnott, 8th Viscount of Arbuthnott 5 October 1804 – 1847
• Sir Thomas Burnett, 8th Baronet 22 April 1847 – 16 February 1849
• James Carnegie, 9th Earl of Southesk 30 March 1849 – 1856
• Francis Alexander Keith-Falconer, 8th Earl of Kintore 28 May 1856 – 1863
• Sir James Burnett, 10th Baronet 30 December 1863 – 17 December 1876
• Sir Thomas Gladstone, 2nd Baronet 7 October 1876 – 20 March 1889
• Sir Alexander Baird, 1st Baronet 24 December 1889 – 1918
• Sir Thomas Burnett, 12th Baronet 25 January 1918 – 1926
• Sir John Gladstone, 3rd Baronet 20 January 1926 – 25 June 1926
• John Ogilvy Arbuthnott, 14th Viscount of Arbuthnott 22 July 1926 – 17 October 1960
• Robert Keith Arbuthnott, 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott 20 December 1960 – 14 December 1966
• George Anderson Murray Saunders 22 March 1967 – 1977
• John Arbuthnott, 16th Viscount of Arbuthnott 8 February 1977 – 1999†
• John Dalziel Beveridge Smart 24 January 2000 – 2007
• Carol Elizabeth Margaret Kinghorn (née Saunders) 11 September 2007 – 30 September 2020
• Alastair C.S. Macphie 1 October 2020 –

†Known as Lord-Lieutenant for the Grampian Region (County of Kincardine) until 1996

Deputy lieutenants

A deputy lieutenant of Kincardineshire is commissioned by the Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire. 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

• 6 February 1894: Captain Thomas Burnett Ramsay ^[2]
• 6 February 1894: Alexander Milne Ogston ^[2]

21st Century

• 11 January 2005: Victoria d’Anyers Willis ^[3]
• 2 May 2012: Colin Richard Champion ^[4]
• 11 November 2020: Ewan Clark ^[5]

References

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

1. Haden-Guest, Edith Lady (1964). "CARNEGIE, Sir James, 3rd Bt. (1715-65), of Pittarrow, Kincardine.". In Namier, Sir Lewis; Brooke, John (eds.). The House of Commons 1754–1790. The History of Parliament Trust . Retrieved 12 February 2021.
2. "Edinburgh Gazette Issue 10542". 6 February 1894. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
3. "Deputy Lieutenant Commissions". 28 January 2005. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
4. "Deputy Lieutenant Commissions". 8 May 2012. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
5. "Deputy Lieutenant Commissions". 18 December 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2025.