past rectors of edinburgh

1859 William Gladstone
1865 Thomas Carlyle
1868 James Moncreiff, 1st Baron Moncreiff
1871 Sir William Stirling-Maxwell
1874 Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby
1877 Spencer Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington
1880 Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
1883 Sir Stafford Northcote (from 1885 Earl of Iddesleigh)
1887 Schomberg Kerr, 9th Marquess of Lothian
1890 George Goschen
1893 James Robertson
1896 Alexander Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh
1899 Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
1902 Sir Robert Finlay
1905 Richard Haldane
1908 George Wyndham
1911 Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto
1914 Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
1917 David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty
1920 David Lloyd George
1923 Stanley Baldwin
1926 Sir John Gilmour
1929 Winston Churchill
1932 General Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton
1935 Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby
1936 Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson
1939 Sir J. Donald Pollock
1945 Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope
1948 Alastair Sim
1951 Sir Alexander Fleming
1954 Sir Sydney A. Smith
1957 James Robertson Justice
1960 Jo Grimond
1963 James Robertson Justice
1966 Malcolm Muggeridge
1969 Kenneth Allsop
1972 Jonathon W. G. Wills
1973 Gordon Brown
1976 Magnús Magnússon
1979 Very Rev. Anthony Ross
1982 David Steel
1985 Archie Macpherson
1988 Muriel Gray
1991 Donnie Munro
1994 Malcolm Macleod
1997 John Mark Colquhoun
2000 Robin Harper MSP
2003 Sir Tam Dalyell
2006 Mark Ballard