1739  Alexander Drummond

       H.M. Collector of Customs at Greenock, afterwards H.M. Consul at Aleppo.

 

     1747    Robert Mollison

     H.M. Inspector of Excise at Ayr.

 

1756    Archibald Hamilton of Dalserf

 

1769    George Murdoch

Provost of Glasgow 1766-67

         

1795    Andrew Houston of Jordanhill

 

1805    Sir John Stewart, Bart. of Allanbank

 

1813    Sir John Maxwell, Bart. of Pollok

Member of Parliament for Paisley

 

1827    Henry Monteith of Carstairs

Lord Provost of Glasgow 1814-16 and 1818-20, Member of Parliament for Lanark Burghs  

 

1847    Sir Archibald Alison Bart. LL.D. 

Sheriff of Lanarkshire, Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow

1867    Captain Archibald Alexander Speirs of Elderslie D.L

Member of Parliament for Renfrewshire

 

1868    Colonel Walter Montgomerie Neilson of Queenshill

     Colonel of 25^th Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers

 

1880    Sir James Bain (appointed but resigned prior to Installation)

  Lord Provost of Glasgow 1874-77

 

 1880    Sir William Pearce, Bart.

 Member of Parliament for Govan

 

1889    John Graham of Broadstone, C.A.

 

1905    Alexander Archibald Hagart Speirs of Elderslie, V.L., J.P

   Vice Lieutenant of the County of Renfrewshire

 

1930    John Rankine Andrew, J.P.

 

1931    John Marr Grant, J.P.

 

1936    Sir Alexander Brown Swan, D.L., J.P., LL.D.

  Lord Provost of Glasgow 1932-35

1941    John Marr Grant, J.P.

 

1943  James Osbourne Martin

 

1948    Donald MacKay Kerr

 

1953    Dr. Alexander Anderson McMillan, M.B., Ch.B.

 

1958    Ernest Noakes

 

1963    John McCulloch Russell, C.A.

 

1968    George Fenton Fenwick B.L.

       

1970  Adam John Ferguson A.I.B. (Scot.)

 

1975    Brian Graham Brown, M.B.E.

 

1980    William Fleming, C.St.J., F.C.M.I., F.I.D.H.E., F.Inst.D., F.S.A. Scot.

 

1984    William Cowell Sheperdson, S.B.St.J., F.F.B.

 

 1989  Henry Jeffrey

 

1994  George A. L. McEwan M.S.O.E., I.Eng., M.I.Plant.E., M.B.E.S.

 

1999  Robert Ross Best, C.St.J., C.Eng., M.I.Mech.E., M.C.I.B.S.E.  F.S.A. (Scot)

 

2004  William Gilmour, M.C.B.J.S., F.S.A. (Scot)