Lord High Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland explained

The Lord High Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland was the monarch of Scotland's personal representative to the Parliament of Scotland. From the accession of James VI of Scotland to the throne of England in 1603, a Lord High Commissioner was appointed from among the senior nobility to represent the Scottish monarch in parliament when he or she was absent, as was usually the case up to 1707.^[1] The Act of Union 1707, which merged the Parliament of Scotland and the Parliament of England to create the Parliament of Great Britain, rendered the post redundant.

The Lord High Commissioner represented Crown authority and sat on the throne within the parliamentary chamber. The Commissioner gave royal assent to all acts of parliament by touching the final copy of each act with the sceptre. They were the custodian of the Crown's legislative agenda and were effectively the heads of government in Scotland during this period.^[2]

List of Lords High Commissioner

Image	Name	Tenure
		1605
		1607
		1609
		1612
		1621
		1639
		1641
		1646
		1661, 1662
		1663, 1665, 1667
		1669, 1670, 1672, 1673, 1674, 1678
	James, Duke of Albany (later James VII)	1681
		1685
		1686
		1689
		1690
		1693
		1695
		1696
		1698
		1700, 1702, 1703
		1704
		1705
		1706 - 1707

See also

• Commissioner (Scottish Parliament)
• Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
• Lord Chancellor of Scotland

Notes and References

1. Book: Mann, Alastair. Officers of state and representation in the pre-modern Scottish Parliament. Mann. Alastair. Political Representation: Communities, Ideas and Institutions in Europe (c. 1200 - c. 1690). Brill. Leiden. 2018. 142–160.
2. Web site: a personal representative of the Sovereign, Lords High Commissioner were appointed to the Scottish Parliament between the Union of the Crowns (1603) and the Act of Union (1707) and were the heads of government in Scotland.. Gazetteer for Scotland, University of Edinburgh. 1 March 2010.