Treasurer-depute
The Treasurer-depute was a senior post in the pre-Union government of Scotland. It was the equivalent of the English post of Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Originally a deputy to the Treasurer, the Treasurer-depute emerged as a separate Crown appointment by 1614. Its holder attended the Privy [Council of Scotland|Privy Council] in the absence of the Treasurer, but gained independent membership of the Council in 1587 and sat in the Parliament of Scotland as a Great Officer of State in 1593 and from 1617 onwards.
List of treasurers-depute
- 1547 James Forrester
- 1584: Sir Robert Melville, 1st [Lord Melville|Robert Melville]
- 1604–1610: Sir John Arnot
- 1610–1621: Gideon Murray
- 1622–1631: Archibald Napier, 1st Lord Napier
- 1631–?: John Stewart, 1st Earl of Traquair
- 1636-1649: Sir James Carmichael
- 1661–1671: William Bellenden, 1st Lord Bellenden
- 1671–1682?: Charles Maitland, Lord Haltoun
- 1682–1684: John Drummond
- 1684–1686?: John Keith, 1st Earl of Kintore
- 1687–1689: Richard Maitland, Viscount Maitland
- 1690–1698: Alexander Melville, Lord Raith
- 1699–1703: Adam Cockburn of Ormiston, Lord Ormiston
- 1703: David Boyle, 1st Earl of Glasgow