This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant

Lord Lieutenant

The title Lord Lieutenant is given to the British monarch's personal representatives in the United Kingdom, usually in a county or similar circumscription, with varying tasks throughout history. Usually a retired local notable, senior military officer, peer or business person is given the post...

 of Wigtownshire

Wigtownshire

Wigtownshire or the County of Wigtown is a registration county in the Southern Uplands of south west Scotland. Until 1975, the county was one of the administrative counties used for local government purposes, and is now administered as part of the council area of Dumfries and Galloway...

, a county in the Dumfries and Galloway

Dumfries and Galloway

Dumfries and Galloway is one of 32 unitary council areas of Scotland. It was one of the nine administrative 'regions' of mainland Scotland created in 1975 by the Local Government etc. Act 1973...

 council area of south-west Scotland

Scotland

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Title

The current title of the Lord Lieutenant is Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant for Wigtown, or the Lord Lieutenant for the Area of
Wigtown. The area of Wigtown

Wigtownshire

Wigtownshire or the County of Wigtown is a registration county in the Southern Uplands of south west Scotland. Until 1975, the county was one of the administrative counties used for local government purposes, and is now administered as part of the council area of Dumfries and Galloway...

, the name of the relevant lieutenancy area

Lieutenancy area

Lieutenancy areas are the separate areas of the United Kingdom appointed a Lord Lieutenant - the representative of the British monarch. In many cases they have similar demarcation and naming to, but are not necessarily conterminate with, the counties of the United Kingdom.-Origin:In England,...

 of the Lord Lieutenant, encompasses not only the town of Wigtown

Wigtown

Wigtown is a town and former royal burgh in the Machars of Galloway in the south west of Scotland. It lies south of Newton Stewart and east of Stranraer. It has a population of about 1,000...

, but the historic county

Counties of Scotland

The counties of Scotland were the principal local government divisions of Scotland until 1975. Scotland's current lieutenancy areas and registration counties are largely based on them. They are often referred to as historic counties....

 or Wigtownshire. As such, the office continues to be referred to as the Lord Lieutenant of Wigtownshire.

Between 1794 and 1975, the official title of the office was His or Her Majesty's Lieutenant in the County of Wigtown. From 1975, the title became Lord-Lieutenant in Dumfries and Galloway Region (District of Wigtown), altering in 1996 to its present form described above.

List of office-holders

• John Stewart, 7th Earl of Galloway
  John Stewart, 7th Earl of Galloway
  John Stewart, 7th Earl of Galloway KT was a Scottish peer, styled Viscount Garlies from 1747 until 1773. He succeeded his father Alexander in 1773. He was elected one of the representative peers, representing the Peerage of Scotland in the House of Lords, in 1774 and sat there until the 1790s...
  
   17 March 1794 – 13 November 1806
• George Stewart, 8th Earl of Galloway
  George Stewart, 8th Earl of Galloway
  Admiral George Stewart, 8th Earl of Galloway KT , styled Lord Garlies between 1773 and 1806, was a British naval commander and politician.-Background:...
  
   24 March 1807 – 1828
• Randolph Stewart, 9th Earl of Galloway 9 July 1828 – 1851
• John Dalrymple, 10th Earl of Stair 16 May 1851 – 3 December 1903
• Sir Herbert Maxwell, 7th Baronet
  Sir Herbert Maxwell, 7th Baronet
  The Rt. Hon. Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell, 7th Baronet of Monreith, KT, PC, FRS, FRGS was a Scottish novelist, essayist, horticulturalist and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1906....
  
   26 December 1903 – 1935
• John James Dalrymple, 12th Earl of Stair 17 April 1935 – 4 November 1961
• John Aymer Dalrymple, 13th Earl of Stair
  John Dalrymple, 13th Earl of Stair
  John Aymer Dalrymple, 13th Earl of Stair, KCVO, MBE, DL , the son of John James Dalrymple, 12th Earl of Stair and Violet Evelyn Harford. He served as Lord-Lieutenant of Wigtownshire from 1961 to 1983.-Family:...
  
   8 January 1962 – 1981
• Maj. Henry John Brewis 18 September 1981 – 25 May 1989
• Maj. Edward Stuart Orr-Ewing 1 November 1989 – 2006
• Marion Teresa Brewis 14 August 2006 – present