The Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, also known as the Dean of Faculty, is the head of the Faculty of Advocates, the independent body for advocates in Scotland. The Dean is elected by the whole membership.
List of deans of Faculty
1582 to ????: John Sharp
17th-century
1655 to ????: John Nisbet
1661 to ????: John Ellis of Elliston
1664 to ????: Robert Sinclair of Longformacus
1672 to ????: George Lockhart
1675 to ????: Sir Andrew Birnie. Later Lord Saline. 1680 to ????: Sir John Dalrymple 1682 to 1689: George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh 1690 to ????: Sir John Dalrymple 1691 to ????: Sir Robert Colt 1694 to 1695: Sir James Stewart 1695 to 1698: Hew Dalrymple 1698 to >1708: Robert Bennet
18th-century
1698 to >1708: Robert Bennet
1712 to 1721: Sir David Dalrymple
1721 to 1722: Robert Dundas of Arniston, the Elder
1722 to 1746: ?? 1746 to 1760: Robert Dundas of Arniston, the younger 1760 to 1764: James Ferguson 1764 to 1775: Alexander Lockhart ???? to 1785: Henry Dundas 1785 to 1795: Henry Erskine 1796 to ????: Robert Dundas (1758–1819)
19th-century
1801 to 1808: Robert Blair
1808 to 1823: Matthew Ross of Candie
1823 to 1826: George Cranstoun
1826 to ????: Sir James Wellwood Moncreiff, 9th Baronet
1829: Francis Jeffrey
1830 to 1841: John Hope
1842 to 1843: Patrick Robertson
1843 to 1851: Duncan McNeill
1852: John Marshall
1852 to 1858: ?? 1858 to 1869: James Moncreiff 1868 to 1874: Edward Gordon 1874 to 1875: Andrew Rutherfurd-Clark 1875 to 1876: William Watson 1877: Robert Horne 1878 to 1881: Patrick Fraser 1881: Alexander Kinnear 1882 to 1885: John Macdonald 1885 to 1886: John Balfour 1886 to 1889: ?? 1889 to 1892: John Balfour (second term) 1892 to 1895: Charles Pearson 1895 to 1905: Alexander Asher