Lord Lieutenant of Wigtown

This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Wigtownshire, a county in the Dumfries and Galloway council area of south-west Scotland.

Title

The current title of the Lord Lieutenant is Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant for Wigtown,^[1] or the Lord Lieutenant for the Area of Wigtown. The area of Wigtown, the name of the relevant lieutenancy area of the Lord Lieutenant, encompasses not only the town of Wigtown, but of Wigtownshire. As such, the office continues to be referred to as the Lord Lieutenant of Wigtownshire.^{[2] [3]}

Between 1794 and 1975, the official title of the office was His or Her Majesty's Lieutenant in the County of Wigtown. From 1975, the title became Lord-Lieutenant in Dumfries and Galloway Region (District of Wigtown), altering in 1996 to its present form described above.

List of office-holders

• John Stewart, 7th Earl of Galloway 17 March 1794 – 13 November 1806
• George Stewart, 8th Earl of Galloway 24 March 1807 – 1828
• Randolph Stewart, 9th Earl of Galloway 9 July 1828 – 1851
• John Dalrymple, 10th Earl of Stair 16 May 1851 – 3 December 1903
• Sir Herbert Maxwell, 7th Baronet 26 December 1903 – 1935
• John James Dalrymple, 12th Earl of Stair 17 April 1935 – 4 November 1961^[4]
• John Aymer Dalrymple, 13th Earl of Stair 8 January 1962 – 1981^[5]
• Maj. Henry John Brewis 18 September 1981 – 25 May 1989^[6]
• Maj. Edward Stuart Orr-Ewing 1 November 1989 – 2006
• Marion Teresa Brewis 14 August 2006 – 31 December 2014^[7][8]
• John Alexander Ross 25 Sep 2015 – 19 Feb 2020^[9]
• Aileen Brewis 20 Feb 2020 to present^[10]

References

• Sainty, J. C. "Lieutenants and Lord-Lieutenants of Counties (Scotland) 1794-". Retrieved 2018-02-10.