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Treasurer-depute

The Treasurer-depute was a senior post in the pre-Union government of Scotland. It was the equivalent of the English post of Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Originally a deputy to the Treasurer, the Treasurer-depute emerged as a separate Crown appointment by 1614. Its holder attended the Privy Council in the absence of the Treasurer, but gained independent membership of the Council in 1587 and sat in the Parliament of Scotland as a Great Officer of State in 1593 and from 1617 onwards.

1547 James Forrester

1584:

Sir Robert Melville

1604–1610:

Sir John Arnot

1610–1621:

Gideon Murray

1622–1631:

Archibald Napier, 1st Lord Napier

1631–?:

John Stewart, 1st Earl of Traquair

1636-1649: Sir James Carmichael

1661–1671:

William Bellenden, 1st Lord Bellenden

1671–1682?:

Charles Maitland, Lord Haltoun

1682–1684:

John Drummond

1684–1686?:

John Keith, 1st Earl of Kintore

1687–1689:

Richard Maitland, Viscount Maitland

1690–1698:

Alexander Melville, Lord Raith

1699–1703: , Lord Ormiston

Adam Cockburn of Ormiston

1703:

David Boyle, 1st Earl of Glasgow