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While I try to work out how to give you the database of everyone who has been, or is, a District Officer, here is a starter with the holders of the Commissioned Offices since the District was founded.

District Grand Priory of Strathclyde

Order of the Temple

Order of St John of Jerusalem, Palestine, Rhodes and Malta

DISTRICT GRAND PRIORS

1910 - 1931 Col Sir Robert King Stewart

1931 - 1946 Archibald A Hagart Spiers

1946 - 1951 Robert W Wilson

1951 - 1956 Rev’d G Kerr McKay

1956 - 1963 Ian Logan McKean

1965 -1971 Robert C M Inglis

1973 - 1977 Robert McIntyre

1977 - 1984 George Stevenson

1984 - 1989 John Holmes Lawrie

1989 - 1994 William L Phelan

1994 - 1999 Kenneth D Kennedy

1999 - 2004 James Main

2004 - 2009 John McKee

2009 -2014 James McKean Pettigrew

2014 - Robert Samuel McBride Stewart

DISTRICT SENESCHALS

1910 - 1931 Archibald A Hagart Spiers

1931 - 1938 David Allan Hay

1938 - 1941 Robert Skeil

1941 - 1943 John Hewat

1943 - 1946 Robert W Wilson

1946 - 1956 Samuel Hamilton

1956 - 1963 C P Davies

1964 - 1964 Alex D Speedie

1964 - 1972 Robert McIntyre

1972 - 1977 A F C Twiss

1977 - 1984 George S Reid

1984 - 1986 William Lightbody

1986 - 1989 William L Phelan

1989 - 1999 James Main

1999 - 2004 John McKee

2004 - 2009 James McKean Pettigrew

2009 - 2014 Robert Samuel McBride Stewart

2014 - Keir G Brown

DISTRICT SUB-PRIORS

1910 - 1918 Robert Brown

1918 - 1927 John Duncan

1927 - 1931 David Allan Hay

1931 - 1938 Robert Skeil

1938 - 1946 Robert Hall

1946 - 1956 Andrew Binnie

1957 - 1964 James Sinclair

1964 - 1972 A F C Twiss

1972 - 1977 George Stevenson

1977 - 1984 Andrew Copeland

1984 - 1989 David G F Steele

1989 - 1994 Stewart S Wood

1994 - 1999 James Begley

1999 - 2004 Gavin K Wardrope

2004 - 2009 Andrew Neil

2009 - 2014 Keir G Brown

2014 - Tom Wilson

CONSTABLES

1910 - 1931 Archibald Lang

1931 - 1938 Robert Hall

1938 - 1943 Robert W Wilson

1943 - 1946 William M MacDonald

1946 - 1956 Andrew I Bell

1957 - 1964 Robert McIntyre

1964 - 1972 Gavin D Cowper

1972 - 1977 John E C Wright

1977 - 1980 William J Murphy

1980 - 1984 Hugh D O’Donnell

1984 - 1986 William L Phelan

1986 - 1989 George H Maxwell

1989 - 1994 James Begley

1994 - 1999 John McKee

1999 - 2004 James McKean Pettigrew

2004 - 2009 Norman J McLeod

2009 - 2014 Gary Caldwell

2014 - John M McAlpine

PRELATES

1910 - 1912 Rev’d William Brownlee*

1912 - 1917 Rev’d Robert Muir*

1917 - 1918 John Duncan*

1918 - 1919 William Paterson*

1919 - 1920 William Goudie*

1920 - 1922 Joseph Matthews*

1922 - 1923 Thomas Barrie*

1923 - 1924 William Whyte*

1924 - 1925 Robert Skeil*

1925 - 1927 Alexander McPherson*

1927 - 1928 Andrew A Gibson*

1928 - 1929 John McDougall*

1929 - 1930 William Dalziel*

1930 - 1931 Lewis MacLachlan*

1931 - 1932 Andrew McLennan*

1932 - 1933 Thomas Galbraith*

1933 - 1934 David Bennett*

1934 - 1935 Francis Youill*

1935 - 1936 John Clark*

1936 - 1937 Charles Wilkinson*

1937 - 1938 Allan F Duncan*

1938 - 1939 William A Arnott*

1939 - 1940 Peter McAuslan*

1940 - 1941 Andrew Love*

1941 - 1942 Henry Currie*

1942 - 1943 William M MacDonald*

1943 - 1944 Andrew Bell*

1944 - 1945 William Innes*

1945 - 1946 Jack G G H Strachan*

1946 - 1947 James Buchanan*

1947 - 1948 William C Honeyman*

1948 - 1949 William McMinn*

1949 - 1951 Rev’d G Kerr McKay

1951 - 1956 William Goodall

1957 - 1958 Rev’d John I McBurnie

1958 - 1962 J Forrester Fraser

1962 - 1964 Robert C M Inglis

1964 - 1972 Dr Vernon O Nurse

1972 - 1977 Thomas MacVarish

1977 - 1984 William Lightbody

1984 - 1992 Daniel McLean

1992 - 1993 Roderick M Urquhart

1993 - 1998 Joseph Young

1998 - 2003 James Cousin

2003 - 2009 Kenneth R Tait

2009 - 2014 John Milgrew

2014 - David McMorris

*Originally, the Office of Prelate was elective and ranked immediately after Almoner. It became a Commissioned office in 1949 with Rev’d G Kerr Mckay holding the first Commission.

SECRETARIES

1910 - 1927 Alexander Mennie

1927 - 1929 Robert Skeil

1929 - 1941 John Hewat

1941 - 1946 Andrew Binnie

1946 - 1956 Charles Wilkinson

1956 - 1956 Unknown who acted until

1956 - 1963 Duncan M Holmes

1964 - 1970 John E C Wright

1970 - 1972 John MacDonald

1972 - 1977 James Main

1977 - 1978 John B Aytoun