List of Lord High Admirals and Vice-Admirals of the Royal Scots Admiralty

Lord High Admirals

Henry Sinclair, 1st Earl of Orkney - to Robert III

George Crichton, 1st Earl of Caithness - to James II

William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness and 3rd Earl of Orkney - to James II

• 1476 David Lindsay, 5th Earl of Crawford, later Duke of Montrose
• 1482 Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany
• 1488 Patrick Hepburn, 1st Earl of Bothwell

James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Arran

Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus

Robert Maxwell, 5th Lord Maxwell

• 1508 Adam Hepburn, 2nd Earl of Bothwell heritably
• 1513 Patrick Hepburn, 3rd Earl of Bothwell, attainted
• 1556 James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, exiled
• 1568 James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, beheaded
• 1581 Francis Stewart, 1st Earl of Bothwell attainted
• 1626 James Stewart, 4th Duke of Lennox heritably

John Earl of Linlithgow, during minority of Duke of Lennox

• 1633 James Duke of Lennox and Gordon (d 1672)
• 1668 Alexander Bruce, 3rd Earl of Kincardine (vice admiral)
• 1673 James, Duke of York later James VII

William Douglas, Duke of Hamilton

Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond and Lennox

• 1705 James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose
• 1706 David Wemyss, 4th Earl of Wemyss

Vice-Admirals

• 1708 David Wemyss, 4th Earl of Wemyss
• 1714 John Hamilton-Leslie, 9th Earl of Rothes
• 1722 Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry
• 1729 John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair
• 1733 George Douglas, 13th Earl of Morton
• 1738 James Ogilvy, 5th Earl of Findlater
• 1764 John Carmichael, 3rd Earl of Hyndford
• 1767 William Douglas, 3rd Earl of March, later Duke of Queensberry
• 1776 John Campbell, 3rd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland
• 1782 Lord William Gordon, brother of Duke of Gordon
• 1795 William, Lord Cathcart (died 16 Jun 1843)

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