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Murray Etherington 2022 – 2023
Ken Dalling 2021 – 2022
Amanda Millar 2020 – 2021
John Mulholland 2019 – 2020
Alison Atack 2018 – 2019
Graham Matthews 2017 – 2018
Eilidh Wiseman 2016 – 2017
Christine McLintock 2015 – 2016
Alistair Morris 2014 – 2015
Bruce Beveridge 2013 – 2014
Austin Lafferty 2012 – 2013
Cameron Ritchie 2011 – 2012
Jamie Millar 2010 – 2011
Ian Smart 2009 – 2010
Richard Henderson 2008 – 2009
John MacKinnon 2007 – 2008
Ruthven Gemmell 2006 – 2007
Caroline Flanagan 2005 – 2006
Sheriff Principal Duncan Murray 2004 – 2005
Sheriff Joseph Platt 2003 – 2004
David M Preston 2002 – 2003 - deceased
Martin J McAllister 2001 – 2002
Alastair Thornton 2000 – 2001
Michael Scanlan 1999 – 2000 - deceased
Philip Dry 1998 – 1999 - deceased
John Elliot 1997 – 1998
Sheriff A Grant McCulloch 1996 – 1997
Alan Boyd 1995 – 1996
Sheriff Kenneth A Ross 1994 – 1995
Sheriff Ian D Dunbar 1993 – 1994
Brian Adair 1992 – 1993
Jimmy Campbell 1991 – 1992 – deceased
Andrew T F Gibb 1990 – 1991
Alistair Clark 1989 – 1990 - deceased
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Jock Smith 1987 – 1988 - deceased
John McNeil CBE 1986 – 1987 - deceased
Norman M Stewart 1985 – 1986 - deceased
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Robin A Edwards 1979 – 1980
W C Denys Andrews 1978 – 1979 - deceased
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Jim Wheelans CBE 1974 – 1976 - deceased
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Murray Wilkie 1968 – 1970 - deceased
Alistair Cook 1966 – 1968 - deceased
Sir Hugh Watson 1964 – 1966 - deceased
Neil Watson 1961 – 1964 - deceased
James Naughton Dandie 1958 – 1961 - deceased
Ralph Risk 1955 – 1958 - deceased
Professor Harry Henderson Monteath 1953 – 1955 - deceased
Sir John Spencer Muirhead 1950 – 1953 - deceased
Sir Ernest MacLagan Wedderburn 1949 – 1950 - deceased
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