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Past Secretaries
Holders of Office of The Secretary of State for Scotland since 1707
Secretary of State
| 1707 | The Earl of Loudon and Earl of Mar |
| 1707-9 | The Duke of Queensberry, till his death on 6 July 1711 |
| 1713 | The Earl of Mar, again |
| 1714 | The Duke of Montrose |
| 1716 | The Duke of Roxburghe, till August 1725 |
| 1741-42 |
The Marquess of Tweeddale |
Secretary for Scotland
| 1885 | Rt Hon Duke of Richmond and Gordon KG |
| 1886 | Rt Hon GO Trevelyan (later Sir GO Trevelyan Bt) |
| 1886 | Rt Hon The Earl of Dalhousie KT |
| 1886 | Rt Hon A J Balfour (later Earl of Balfour) |
| 1887 | The Hon Marquess of Lothian |
| 1887 | Rt Hon Sir GO Trevelyan Bt (again) |
| 1895 | Rt Hon Lord Balfour of Burleigh |
| 1903 | Rt Hon A Graham Murray (later Viscount Dunedin) |
| 1905 | Rt Hon Marquess of Linlithgow KT GCVO GCMG |
| 1905 | Rt Hon J Sinclair (later Lord Pentland) |
| 1912 | Rt Hon T McKinnon Wood |
| 1916 | Rt Hon H J Tennant |
| 1916 | Rt Hon R Munro (later Lord Alness) |
| 1922 | Rt Hon Viscount Novar GCMG |
| 1924 | Rt Hon W Adamson |
| 1924 |
Rt Hon Sir John Gilmour Bt DSO |
Secretary of State for Scotland
| 1926 | Rt Hon Sir John Gilmour Bt DSO |
| 1929 | Rt Hon W Adamson |
| 1931 | Rt Hon Sir Archibald Sinclair Bt CMG (later Viscount Thurso) |
| 1932 | Rt Hon Sir Godfrey Collins |
| 1936 | Rt Hon Walter E Elliot MC |
| 1938 | Rt Hon DJ Colville (later Lord Clydesmuir) |
| 1940 | Rt Hon Ernest Brown, MC |
| 1941 | Rt Hon Thomas Johnston |
| 1945 | Rt Hon Earl of Rosebery DSO MC |
| 1945 | Rt Hon Joseph Westwood |
| 1947 | Rt Hon Arthur Woodburn |
| 1950 | Rt Hon Hector McNeil |
| 1951 | Rt Hon James Stuart, MVO MC (later Viscount Stuart of Findhorn) |
| 1957 | Rt Hon John S Maclay CH CMG (later Viscount Muirshiel of Kilmacolm) |
| 1962 | Rt Hon Michael A C Noble (later Baron Glenkinlas) |
| 1964 | Rt Hon William Ross MBE |
| 1970 | Rt Hon Gordon T C Campbell MC (later Baron Campbell of Croy) |
| 1974 | Rt Hon William Ross MBE |
| 1976 | Rt Hon Bruce Millan |
| 1979 | Rt Hon George Younger TD (later Baron Younger of Prestwick) and Viscount Younger of Leckie |
| 1986 | Rt Hon Malcolm Rifkind |
| 1990 | Rt Hon Ian Lang |
| 1995 | Rt Hon Michael Forsyth (later Lord Forsyth of Drumlean) |
| 1997 | Rt Hon Donald Dewar |
| 1999 | Rt Hon John Reid |
| 2001 | Rt Hon Helen Liddell |
| 2003 | Rt Hon Alistair Darling |
| 2006 |
Rt Hon Douglas Alexander |