The Dean of the Thistle is an office of the
Order of the Thistle, re-established in 1687. The office is normally held by a
minister of the
Church of Scotland
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, and forms part of the
Royal Household in
Scotland
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.
In 1886 the office of
Dean of the Chapel Royal
The Dean of the Chapel Royal, in any kingdom, can be the title of an official charged with oversight of that kingdom's chapel royal, the ecclesiastical establishment which is part of the royal household and ministers to it.
England
In England, ...
was revived and united by
royal warrant to that of Dean of the Thistle, eventually being separated in 1969.
Office holders
*1763:
John Jardine (1716-1766)
*1767: Robert Hamilton
*1787: George Hill
*1791: Archibald Davison
*1803: William Laurence Brown
*1830: George Cook
*1845:
William Muir
Sir William Muir (27 April 1819 – 11 July 1905) was a Scottish Orientalist, and colonial administrator, Principal of the University of Edinburgh and Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Provinces of British India.
Life
He was born at Gl ...
(1787-1869)
*1869:
Norman Macleod (1812-1872)
*1872: John Macleod
*1882:
John Tulloch
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John Tulloch (1 June 1823 – 13 February 1886) was a Scottish theologian.
Life
Tulloch was born at Dron, south of Bridge of Earn, Perthshire, and educated at Perth Grammar School.https://archive.org/stream/fastiecclesiaesc00scot/f ...
(1823-1886)
*1886:
James Cameron Lees (1834-1913)
*1910-1926:
Andrew Wallace Williamson (1856-1926)
*1926-1969:
Charles Laing Warr (1892-1969)
*1969-1974: Dr
Henry Charles Whitley (1906-1976)
*1974-1989: Prof
John McIntyre (1916-2005)
*1989-2014:
Gilleasbuig Iain Macmillan
*2014–2019: The Very Rev
Iain Torrance
Iain Richard Torrance, (born 13 January 1949) is a retired Church of Scotland minister, theologian and academic. He is Pro-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen, Honorary Professor of Early Christian Doctrine and Ethics at the University o ...
*2019-present: The Reverend Professor
David Fergusson
References
Lists of office-holders in Scotland
St Giles' Cathedral
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