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The is a list of provosts of Perth .
Perth is a city in Scotland, and the role of
provost is similar to that of a
mayor in many other countries.
History
The Merchant Guild of Perth was chartered in 1210, and the post of provost may have originated at this point.
[1] The first holder whose name is known is John Mercer, who served in 1368.
[2]
Until 1975, the post was
Lord Provost of Perth , and ranked second in precedence after the
Lord Provost of Edinburgh . With the reorganisation of local government, it became Provost of
Perth and Kinross .
[1]
List of Provosts
1368: John Mercer
[3]
Laurence Spence
[3]
William Mercer
[3]
Andrew de Martyn
[3]
John de Pitscottie
[3]
1465: Andrew Charteris
[3]
1471: Robert Donyng
[3]
Andrew de Martyn
[3]
Richard de Strathearn
[3]
Alexander Bunch
[3]
Thomas Peebles
[3]
Robert Mercer
[3]
Walter Ireland
[3]
Patrick Wells
[3]
1500: Patrick Wells
[3]
Robert Mercer
[3]
Andrew Charteris
[3]
John Charteris
[3]
Alexander Tyre, of Busbie
[3]
Andrew Bunch
[3]
1504: Alexander Blair
[3]
1509: John Donyng
[3]
1521: Patrick Charteris
[3]
1523: Alexander M'Breck
[3]
William, Lord Ruthven
[3]
Oliver Maxton
[3]
John Christison
[3]
William Patullo
[3]
1544: Patrick Ruthven
[4]
1584: Patrick, Master of Ruthven
[3]
Sir William Murray, of Tullibardine
[3]
William, Earl of Gowrie
[3]
John, Earl of Montrose
[3]
John, Earl of Atholl
[3]
James Hepburn
[3]
James, Earl of Gowrie
[3]
John, Earl of Gowrie
[3]
1600: David Murray, afterwards Lord Scone
[3]
James Adamson
[3]
Viscount Stormont
[3]
Alexander Peebles
[3]
Robert Arnot
[3]
Andrew Gray
[3]
Andrew Grant
[3]
Andrew Butter
[3]
John Paterson
[3]
1664:
Sir Patrick Threipland
[3]
1666: George Threipland
[3]
Archibald Christie
[3]
Andrew Jackson
[3]
Patrick Hay
[3]
Robert Lauder
[3]
John Glas
[3]
Robert Smyth
[3]
George Oliphant
[3]
James Cree
[3]
David Murray
[3]
Patrick Davidson
[3]
1700: George Oliphant
[3]
Patrick Davidson
[3]
1704: Alexander Robertson
[3]
1706: James Cree
[3]
James Brown
[3]
William Austen
[3]
Robert Robertson
[3]
Patrick Hay
[3]
William Ferguson
[3]
Colin Brown
[3]
Patrick Crie
[3]
John Robertson
[3]
William Stuart
[3]
William Gray
[3]
John Stuart
[3]
Alexander Simpson
[3]
George Fechney
[3]
1784: Thomas Marshall
1785: Thomas Marshall
[3]
William Alison
[3]
John Caw
[3]
Alexander Fechney
[3]
James Ramsay
[3]
Thomas Black
[3]
1800:
Thomas Hay Marshall
[5]
1801: Thomas Hay Marshall
1802: John Caw
1803: John Caw
1804: Thomas Hay Marshall
1805: Thomas Hay Marshall
1806: John Caw
1807: John Caw
1808: Laurence Robertson
1809: Laurence Robertson
1810: Robert Ross
1811: Robert Ross
1812: Laurence Robertson
1813: Laurence Robertson
1814: Robert Ross
1815: Robert Ross
1816: Laurence Robertson
1817: Laurence Robertson
1818: David Morison
1819: David Morison
1820: Robert Ross
1821: Robert Ross
1822: Patrick Gilbert Stewart
1823: Patrick Gilbert Stewart
1824: Robert Ross
1825: Robert Ross
1825: Patrick Gilbert Stewart
1826: Patrick Gilbert Stewart
1827: Robert Ross
1828: Robert Ross
1829: Patrick Gilbert Stewart
1830: Patrick Gilbert Stewart
1839:
David Greig
[6]
1841: David Greig
1842: Charles Graham Sidney
1862: Sir David Ross
1867:
John Pullar
[7]
1873: Andrew Graham
1880: Kirkwood Hewat
1890: George Wilson
1893:
John Dewar
1899: David Macgregor
1902: Thomas Love
1909: Duncan Macnab
1912: Charles Scott
1919: Archibald Ure Wotherspoon
1922:
John Dewar
1924:
1932:
Thomas Hunter
1935: Robert Nimmo
[8]
1945: John Ure Primrose
[9]
1954: John Buchan
John T. Young
1963: Robert Ritchie
[10]
1966:
David Kinnear Thomson
[11]
1972: Alexander Cross
1975:
John Mathieson
1988: Alexander Murray
[12]
19??:
John Cullivan
1999: Mike O'Malley
[13]
2003: Bob Scott
[14]
2007: John Hulbert
2012: Liz Grant
[15]
2017: Dennis Melloy
[16]
2022: Xander McDade
[17]
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