Secretary for Scotland
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The Secretary for Scotland was chief minister in charge of the Scottish Office in the United Kingdom government. The post of Secretary of State for Scotland existed briefly after the Union of the Parliament of Scotland and the Parliament of England in 1707 till the Jacobite rising of 1745.

After the rising, responsibility for Scotland lay primarily with the office of the Home Secretary, usually exercised by the Lord Advocate. 1885 saw the creation of the Scottish Office and the post of Secretary for Scotland. From 1892 the Secretary for Scotland sat in cabinet, but the position was not officially recognised as a full member of the cabinet of the United Kingdom until the Secretary for Scotland post was upgraded to full Secretary of State rank as Secretary of State for Scotland in 1926.

Secretaries for Scotland (1885-1926)

• Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond (17 August 1885 - 28 January 1886)
• George Otto Trevelyan (8 February 1886 - March, 1886) (Resigned)
• John William Ramsay, 13th Earl of Dalhousie (5 April 1886 - 20 July 1886)
• Arthur Balfour (5 August 1886 - 11 March 1887)
• Schomberg Henry Kerr, 9th Marquess of Lothian (11 March 1887 - 11 August 1892)
• George Otto Trevelyan (18 August 1892 - 21 June 1895)
• Alexander Hugh Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh (29 June 1895 - 9 October 1903) (Resigned)
• Andrew Murray (9 October 1903 - 2 February 1905)
• John Adrian Louis Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow (2 February 1905 - 4 December 1905)
• John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland (10 December 1905 - 13 February 1912)
• Thomas McKinnon Wood (13 February 1912 - 9 July 1916)
• Harold Tennant (9 July 1916 - 5 December 1916)
• Robert Munro (10 December 1916 - 19 October 1922)
• Ronald Munro-Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar (24 October 1922 - 22 January 1924)
• William Adamson (22 January 1924 - 3 November 1924)
• Sir John Gilmour (6 November 1924 - 26 July 1926)

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