Our Town's Provosts

1214 Roger of Balcathie & Nicholas of Wartria are described as 'Provosts of Arbroath'.

1215 - 1646 No Official appears to be given the title 'Provost'.

1724 John Lamb

1738 (approx) John Wallace

1744 - 1749 (except 1747) John Mann

   - 1781 - ----- Greig

1802 - 1805 ----- Johnston

1805 - 1808 Alexander Hay

1836 - 1839 Robert Allan

1839 - Alexander Mann

18 George Keith

1895 - 1904 Colin Grant

1904 - 1913 ----- Alexander

1919 - 1925 Archibald Craig Anderson

1928- 1943 (Sir) William Chapell

  -'48/49- John Lamb

1949 - 1954 ? John F. Webster

1952 - 1957 ? J. K. Moir

   - 1959 - D. A. Gardner

1964 - 1973 Robert Ritchie Spink is Arbroath's 13th Provost ( he receives the O.B.E. in 1970 )

1975 David Chapel

19 James Goodall

  - 2007 Bill Middleton (Provost of Angus)

2007 - Ruth Leslie Melville (Provost of Angus)