The Lord Lieutenant of Nairn, is the British monarch's personal representative in an area which has been defined since 1975 as consisting of the

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district of

Nairn Nairn (; gd, Inbhir Narann) is a town and royal burgh in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is an ancient fishing port and market town around east of Inverness, at the point where the River Nairn enters the Moray Firth. It is the tradi ...

, in

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, and this definition was renewed by the Lord-Lieutenants (Scotland) Order 1996. Previously, the area of the lieutenancy was the

county of Nairn The County of Nairn (also called Nairnshire) ( gd, Siorrachd Inbhir Narann) is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland. The county was used for local administration until the county council, based at the county t ...

, which was abolished as a local government area by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. The district was created, under the 1973 act, with the boundaries of the county, as a district of the two-tier

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and abolished as a local government area under the

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, which turned the Highland region into a unitary

council area {{Unreferenced, date=May 2019, bot=noref (GreenC bot) A council area is one of the areas defined in Schedule 1 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 and is under the control of one of the local authorities in Scotland created by that Act. ...

List of Lord Lieutenants of Nairn

Hugh Rose, 15th of Kilravock Hugh Rose, 15th Baron of Kilravock and Chief of Clan Rose, (1663–1732) was one of the Scottish representatives to the first Parliament of Great Britain as MP for Nairnshire. Early life Rose was born at Kilravock Castle the son of Hugh ...

, 1729– 23 January 1732 * James Brodie, 21st of Brodie 17 March 1794 – 17 January 1824 *William Brodie, 22nd of Brodie 9 February 1824 – 6 June 1873 *James Campbell John Brodie, 12th of Lethen 25 June 1873 – 25 February 1880 * Hugh Fife Ashley Brodie, 23rd of Brodie 25 March 1880 – 20 September 1889 * James Rose, 23rd of Kilravock 22 November 1889 – 16 November 1903 *Ian Ashley Morton Brodie, 24th of Brodie 6 November 1903 – 1935 *

Archibald Leslie-Melville, 13th Earl of Leven Archibald Alexander Leslie-Melville, 13th Earl of Leven, 12th Earl of Melville KT DL (6 August 1890 – 15 January 1947) was a Scottish soldier, and peer. He was educated at Oxford and Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He played for the Oxford ...

8 July 1935 – 15 January 1947 *

John Grahame Buchanan Allardyce John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second ...

16 April 1947 – 21 September 1949 *Hon. Ian Malcolm Campbell 5 December 1949 – 1958 * James Erskine Stirling 4 December 1958 – 20 December 1968 *

Alexander Leslie-Melville, 14th Earl of Leven Alexander Robert Leslie-Melville, 14th Earl of Leven DL (13 May 1924 – 7 April 2012) was a Scottish peer and soldier. He was educated at Eton College. A captain in the Coldstream Guards, he fought in the Second World War, and was wounded. He ...

22 July 1969 – 1999 *Ewen John Brodie CVO, 16th of Lethen 9 November 1999 – 16 December 2017 *George Russell Asher 19 January 2018 – present

References

* County of Nairn

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