Dundee Town Council

Dundee through the ages

The Provosts and Lord Provosts of Dundee

The Minutes of the Town Council of Dundee which are still in existence do not bear an earlier date than 1553; but as the names of the Provost, Dean of Guild, and Treasurer for the time being were usually entered in the Lockit Book over every name of an admitted Burgess, we are thus able to obtain a more complete list from it than the regular Minute Books afford. To make this list still more comprehensive, elaborate research has been made amongst contemporary charters and documents, and by these means the blanks which formerly existed in this portion of the history of Dundee have been largely filled up.

The following names may be found in the Lockit Book, HAY's "Charters and Writs of Dundee," "Documents illustrative of Scottish History," " The Exchequer Rolls of Scotland," Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scoto,rum, Regiqtrum  De Panmure, Registrum Nigrum De  Aberbrothoc, Registrum Vetus  De Aberbrothoc, Libri  De Balmorinach et Lundoris, Registrum Episcopatus Brechinensis, "Charters and Documents of the Weaver Trade of Dundee," "Register of the Privy Council of Scotland," Acts Parliagnentorum, &c., &c. Where no Provost's name has been found in the earlier portion of the list, the names of the principal Bailies who presented the accounts of the burgh to the KING'S Exchequer have been inserted.

All Entries now of Provosts

Lord Provosts of Dundee

Iain D. McIntosh, Friends of Dundee City Archives