Birthplaces of Scottish First Ministers, and Secretaries of State

The birthplaces of Scotland First Ministers and Secretaries of State

Birthplaces of Scottish First Ministers

Name	Time in office	Birthplace	Region of Scotland
Donald Dewar	1999 - 2000	Glasgow	Central Scotland
McLeish	2000 - 2001	Methil	Fife
McConnell	2001 - 2007	Irvine	Ayrshire
Alex Salmond	2007 -	Linlithgow, West Lothian	Lothian

League table of regions and nations producing the First Minister

Deputy First minister of Scotland

Name	Time in office	Birthplace	Region of Scotland
Jim Wallace	1999 - 2005	Annan, Dumfries and Galloway)	Southern Scotland
Nicol Stephen	2005 - 2007	Aberdeen	North East Scotland
Nicola Sturgeon	2007	Irvine	North Ayrshire

Secretary of State for Scotland and Secretary for Scotland

From 1885 - 1926 Scotland had a secretary for Scotland appointed by the British PM. From 1926 this job was increased in status to the British cabinet position of "Secretary of State for Scotland" This is still appointed by the British PM. It is important to point out the British PM is voted for accross the whole of the UK including Scotland and is often a Scot.

4th Earl of Aberdeen	1852 - 1855	Edinburgh	Scotland
Arthur Balfour	1902 - 05	Whittingehame, Haddingtonshire	Scotland
Campbell-Bannerman	1905 - 08	Glasgow	Scotland
Ramsay MacDonald	1924 – 1924 1929 – 1935	Lossiemouth, Morray	Scotland
Blair	1997 - 2007	Edinburgh	Scotland
Gordon Brown	2007 -	Glasgow	Scotland

John A. Macdonald	1867 – 1873 1878 – 1891	Glasgow	Scotland
Alexander Mackenzie	1873 - 78	Logierait,	Scotland

Reid	1904 - 05	Renfrewshire	Scotland
Fisher	1908–1909 1910– 1913 1914– 1915	Crosshouse,	Scotland

Edward Stafford	1856 - 61, 1865 69, 1872 -72	Edinburgh	Scotland
Stout	1884 - 1884, 1884 - 87	Shetland island	Scotland
Mackenzie	1912 - 1912	Midlothian	Scotland
Fraser	1940 - 49	Tain, Scotland, Easter Ross,	Scotland

William Whitelaw	1972 - 73	Nairn, in northeast Scotland.	Scotland
Reid	2001 -02	Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland	Scotland

Name	Time in office	Birthplace	Region of Scotland or nation outside Scotland
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond	1885 - 86	London,	England
Otto Trevelyan	1886 -86, 1892 - 95	Rothley Temple, Leicestershire	England
Ramsay, 13th Earl of Dalhousie	1886 - 1886	?	?
Arthur Balfour	1886 - 87	Whittingehame, Haddingtonshire,	Lothian
Kerr, 9th Marquess of Lothian	1887 - 92	Newbattle Abbey	Lothina
Lord Balfour of Burleigh	1895 - 03	Clackmannan County	Central Scotland
Murray	1903 - 05
Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow	1905 - 05	Queensferry, Scotland
Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland	1905 - 12
McKinnon Wood	1912 - 16	London	England
Tennant	1916 - 16	The Glen, Innerleithen, Peeblesshire	Borders
Munro, 1st Baron Alness	1916 - 22	Alness	North Westerrn Highlands
Munro-Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar	1922 - 24	Kirkcaldy, Fife,	Fife
William Adamson	1924 - 24, 1929 - 31	Dunfermiline	Fife
Gilmour	1924 - 29	?	?
Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso	1931 - 32	?	?
Collins	1932 - 36	?	?
Walter Elliot	1936 - 38	?	?
Colville, 1st Baron Clydesmuir	1938 - 40	?	?
Ernest Brown	1940 - 41	Torquay, Devon	England
Johnston	1941 - 45	Kirkintilloch	Centreal Scotland
Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery	1945 - 45	?	?
Joseph Westwood	1945 - 47	?	?
Arthur Woodburn	1947 - 50	Edinburgh	Lothian
Hector McNeil	1950 - 51	?	?
Stuart, 1st Viscount Stuart of Findhorn	1951 - 57	Edinburgh	Lothian
Maclay, 1st Viscount Muirshiel	1957 - 62	?	?
Michael Noble, Baron Glenkinglas	1962 - 64	?	?
William Ross, Baron Ross of Marnock	1964 - 70, 1974 - 76	Ayr	Ayrshire
Campbell	1970 - 74	?	?
Bruce Millan	1976 - 79	Dundee	North East Scotland
Younger	1979 - 86	?	?
Rifkind	1986 - 90	Edinburgh	Lothian
Lang	1990 - 95	Glasgow	Central Scotland
Forsyth,	1995 - 97	Montrose	North East Scotland
Donald Dewar	1997 -99	Glasgow	Central Scotland
Reid	1999 - 2001	Bellshill, North Lanarkshire	Bellshill, North Lanarkshire
Helen Liddell	2001 - 2003	Coatbridge	Central Scotland
Alistair Darling	2003 - 2006	London	England