List of Knights and Ladies of the Thistle
The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle was founded in 1687. Dates shown are for election or installation.
18th Century 19th Century 20th Century 21st Century |
| Name | Life | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth | 1648-1716 | 1687 | |
| George Gordon, 1st Duke of Gordon | 1649-1716 | 1687 | |
| John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl | 1631-1703 | 1687 | |
| James Douglas, 4th Duke of Hamilton | 1658-1712 | 1687 | |
| Kenneth Mackenzie, 4th Earl of Seaforth | 1661-1701 | 1687 | |
| John Drummond, 1st Earl of Melfort | 1650-1715 | 1687 | |
| George Douglas, 1st Earl of Dunbarton | 1635-1692 | 1687 | |
| Alexander Stewart, 5th Earl of Moray | 1634-1701 | 1687 | |
| John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll | 1680-1743 | 1704 | Resigned 1710 when made KG |
| John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl | 1659-1724 | 1704 | |
| William Johnston, 1st Marquess of Annandale | d. 1721 | 1704 | |
| James Scott, Earl of Dalkeith | 1674-1705 | 1704 | |
| George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney | 1666-1737 | 1704 | |
| James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Seafield | 1663-1730 | 1704 | |
| William Kerr, 2nd Marquess of Lothian | 1661-1722 | 1704 | |
| Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery | 1674-1731 | 1704 | |
| John Erskine, 23rd Earl of Mar | 1675-1732 | 1706 | Degraded 1715 |
| Hugh Campbell, 3rd Earl of Loudoun | d. 1731 | 1706 | |
| John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair | 1673-1747 | 1710 | |
| David Colyear, 1st Earl of Portmore | 1656-1730 | 1713 | |
| John Gordon, 16th Earl of Sutherland | 1661-1733 | 1716 | |
| William Cadogan, 1st Baron Cadogan | 1670-1726 | 1716 | Later Earl Cadogan |
| Thomas Hamilton, 6th Earl of Haddington | 1680-1735 | 1717 | |
| Charles Bennet, 1st Earl of Tankerville | 1674-1722 | 1721 | |
| Francis Scott, Earl of Dalkeith | 1695-1751 | 1725 | Later 2nd Duke of Buccleuch |
| William Capell, 3rd Earl of Essex | 1697-1743 | 1725 | Resigned 1738 when made KG |
| Alexander Hume-Campbell, 2nd Earl of Marchmont | 1676-1740 | 1725 | |
| James Douglas-Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton | 1703-1743 | 1726 | |
| Charles Bennet, 2nd Earl of Tankerville | 1697-1753 | 1730 | |
| Charles Stuart, 6th Earl of Moray | 1660-1735 | 1731 | |
| Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore | 1700-1785 | 1732 | |
| James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl | 1690-1764 | 1734 | |
| William Kerr, 3rd Marquess of Lothian | 1690-1767 | 1734 | |
| James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton | 1703-1768 | 1738 | |
| John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute | 1713-1792 | 1738 | Resigned 1762 when made KG |
| Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun | 1681-1742 | 1738 | |
| Augustus Berkeley, 4th Earl of Berkeley | 1716-1755 | 1739 | |
| James Stuart, 8th Earl of Moray | 1708-1767 | 1741 | |
| John Carmichael, 3rd Earl of Hyndford | 1701-1767 | 1742 | |
| Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart | 1707-1770 | 1743 | |
| Cosmo George Gordon, 3rd Duke of Gordon | 1720-1752 | 1748 | |
| William Dalrymple-Crichton, 5th Earl of Dumfries | d. 1768 | 1752 | |
| Francis Greville, 1st Earl Brooke | 1719-1773 | 1753 | |
| John Leslie, 10th Earl of Rothes | 1698-1767 | 1753 | |
| James Douglas-Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton | 1724-1758 | 1755 | |
| Charles Schaw Cathcart, 9th Lord Cathcart | 1721-1776 | 1763 | |
| William Douglas, Earl of March | 1725-1810 | 1763 | Later 5th Duke of Queensberry |
| John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll | 1693-1770 | 1765 | |
| Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch | 1746-1812 | 1767 | Resigned 1794 when made KG |
| John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl | 1729-1774 | 1767 | |
| Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle | 1748-1825 | 1767 | Resigned 1793 |
| William Henry Kerr, 4th Marquess of Lothian | 1710-1775 | 1768 | |
| David Murray, 7th Viscount Stormont | 1727-1796 | 1768 | Later 2nd Earl of Mansfield |
| John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe | 1740-1804 | 1768 | |
| Prince William Henry | 1765-1837 | 1770 | Later William IV, King of the United Kingdom |
| Neil Primrose, 3rd Earl of Rosebery | 1729-1814 | 1771 | |
| Robert Henley, 2nd Earl of Northington | 1747-1786 | 1773 | |
| Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon | 1743-1827 | 1775 | |
| John Stewart, 7th Earl of Galloway | 1736-1806 | 1775 | |
| William John Kerr, 5th Marquess of Lothian | 1737-1815 | 1776 | |
| Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 8th Duke of Hamilton | 1756-1799 | 1786 | |
| Thomas Brudenell-Bruce, 1st Earl of Ailesbury | 1739-1814 | 1786 | |
| James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose | 1755-1836 | 1793 | Resigned 1812 when made KG |
| John Poulett, 4th Earl Poulett | 1756-1819 | 1794 | |
| George Douglas, 16th Earl of Morton | 1761-1827 | 1797 | |
| John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl | 1755-1830 | 1800 | |
| William Schaw Cathcart, 10th Lord Cathcart | 1755-1843 | 1805 | Later Earl Cathcart |
| George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen | 1784-1860 | 1808 | |
| Charles William Henry Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 4th Duke of Buccleuch | 1772-1819 | 1812 | |
| Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Montgomerie | 1739-1819 | 1812 | |
| George Stewart, 8th Earl of Galloway | 1768-1834 | 1814 | |
| Henry Nevill, 2nd Earl of Abergavenny | 1755-1843 | 1814 | |
| Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine | 1750-1823 | 1815 | |
| Charles Brudenell-Bruce, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury | 1773-1856 | 1819 | Later Marquess of Ailesbury |
| William Kerr, 6th Marquess of Lothian | 1763-1824 | 1820 | |
| George Hay, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale | 1787-1876 | 1820 | |
| Archibald Kennedy, 12th Earl of Cassilis | 1770-1846 | 1821 | Later Marquess of Ailsa |
| James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale | 1759-1839 | 1821 | |
| Robert Saunders-Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville | 1771-1851 | 1821 | |
| Charles Douglas, 6th Marquess of Queensberry | 1777-1837 | 1821 | |
| George Gordon, 5th Earl of Aboyne | 1761-1853 | 1827 | Later 9th Marquess of Huntly |
| Henry Richard Greville, 3rd Earl Brooke | 1779-1853 | 1827 | |
| James Duff, 4th Earl of Fife | 1776-1857 | 1827 | |
| Francis Stuart, 10th Earl of Moray | 1771-1848 | 1827 | |
| Prince Augustus, Duke of Sussex | 1773-1843 | 1830 | |
| Walter Francis Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch | 1806-1884 | 1830 | Resigned 1835 when made KG |
| William George Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll | 1801-1846 | 1834 | |
| David William Murray, 3rd Earl of Mansfield | 1777-1840 | 1835 | |
| John Campbell, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane | 1796-1862 | 1838 | |
| James Henry Robert Innes-Ker, 6th Duke of Roxburghe | 1816-1879 | 1840 | |
| Archibald John Primrose, 4th Earl of Rosebery | 1783-1868 | 1840 | |
| HRH Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha | 1819-1861 | 1842 | |
| William David Murray, 4th Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield | 1806-1898 | 1843 | |
| John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute | 1793-1848 | 1843 | |
| James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose | 1799-1874 | 1845 | |
| John Hamilton Dalrymple, 8th Earl of Stair | 1771-1853 | 1847 | |
| James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin | 1811-1863 | 1847 | |
| James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, 10th Earl of Dalhousie | 1812-1860 | 1848 | Later Marquess of Dalhousie |
| Robert Dundas Haldane-Duncan, 1st Earl of Camperdown | 1785-1859 | 1848 | |
| Alexander George Fraser, 16th Lord Saltoun | 1785-1853 | 1852 | |
| Archibald Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton | 1812-1861 | 1853 | |
| Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington | 1780-1858 | 1853 | |
| Fox Maule-Ramsay, 1st Baron Panmure | 1801-1874 | 1853 | Later 11th Earl of Dalhousie |
| George Augustus Frederick John Murray, 6th Duke of Atholl | 1814-1864 | 1853 | |
| George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll | 1823-1900 | 1856 | |
| George William Fox Kinnaird, 9th Lord Kinnaird | 1807-1878 | 1857 | |
| Archibald Kennedy, 2nd Marquess of Ailsa | 1816-1870 | 1859 | |
| James Duff, 5th Earl of Fife | 1814-1879 | 1860 | |
| Thomas Dundas, 2nd Earl of Zetland | 1795-1873 | 1861 | Resigned 1872 when made KG |
| Robert Montgomery Hamilton, 8th Lord Belhaven and Stenton | 1793-1868 | 1861 | |
| David Graham Drummond Ogilvy, 10th Earl of Airlie | 1826-1881 | 1862 | |
| Francis Napier, 10th Lord Napier | 1819-1898 | 1864 | |
| Prince Alfred Ernest Albert | 1844-1900 | 1864 | Later Duke of Edinburgh |
| Thomas Alexander Fraser, 12th Lord Lovat | 1802-1875 | 1865 | |
| John Hamilton-Dalrymple, 10th Earl of Stair | 1819-1903 | 1865 | |
| Albert Edward, Prince of Wales | 1841-1910 | 1867 | Later Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom |
| John James Hugh Henry Stewart-Murray, 7th Duke of Atholl | 1840-1917 | 1868 | |
| James Carnegie, 9th Earl of Southesk | 1827-1905 | 1869 | |
| Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert | 1850-1942 | 1869 | Later Duke of Connaught |
| William Hugh Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 3rd Earl of Minto | 1814-1891 | 1870 | |
| John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Marquess of Lorne | 1845-1914 | 1871 | Later 9th Duke of Argyll |
| Prince Leopold George Duncan Albert | 1853-1884 | 1871 | Later Duke of Albany |
| Charles John Colville, 10th Lord Colville of Culross | 1818-1903 | 1874 | Later Viscount Colville of Culross |
| John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute | 1847-1900 | 1875 | |
| William Henry Walter Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Earl of Dalkeith | 1831-1914 | 1875 | Later 6th Duke of Buccleuch |
| William Stirling-Maxwell | 1818-1878 | 1876 | |
| William Alexander Stephen Douglas-Hamilton, 12th Duke of Hamilton | 1845-1895 | 1878 | |
| Schomberg Henry Kerr, 9th Marquess of Lothian | 1833-1900 | 1878 | |
| John Charles Ogilvy-Grant, 7th Earl of Seafield | 1815-1881 | 1879 | |
| Douglas Beresford Malise Ronald Graham, 5th Duke of Montrose | 1852-1925 | 1879 | |
| Alexander William George Duff, 6th Earl of Fife | 1849-1912 | 1881 | |
| John William Ramsay, 13th Earl of Dalhousie | 1847-1887 | 1881 | |
| Prince George William Frederick Charles, Duke of Cambridge | 1819-1904 | 1881 | |
| Alan Plantagenet Stewart, 10th Earl of Galloway | 1835-1901 | 1888 | |
| James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford | 1847-1913 | 1891 | |
| Prince George Frederick Ernest Albert, Duke of York | 1865-1936 | 1893 | Later George V, King of the United Kingdom |
| Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery | 1847-1929 | 1895 | |
| William Montagu Hay, 10th Marquess of Tweeddale | 1826-1911 | 1898 | |
| Charles Alexander Douglas-Home, 12th Earl of Home | 1834-1918 | 1899 | |
| Lawrence Dundas, 1st Marquess of Zetland | 1844-1929 | 1900 | |
| John Adrian Louis Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun | 1860-1908 | 1900 | Later Marquess of Linlithgow |
| Alexander Hugh Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh | 1849-1921 | 1901 | |
| Charles Gore Hay, 20th Earl of Erroll | 1852-1927 | 1901 | |
| Henry John Innes-Ker, 8th Duke of Roxburghe | 1876-1932 | 1902 | |
| George Baillie-Hamilton, 11th Earl of Haddington | 1827-1917 | 1902 | |
| Ronald Ruthven Leslie-Melville, 11th Earl of Leven | 1835-1906 | 1905 | |
| John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, 7th Earl of Aberdeen | 1847-1934 | 1906 | Later Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair |
| Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth | 1849-1909 | 1908 | |
| Gavin George Hamilton, 2nd Baron Hamilton of Dalzell | 1872-1952 | 1909 | |
| Walter John Francis Erskine, 12th Earl of Mar and Kellie | 1865-1955 | 1911 | |
| Donald James Mackay, 11th Lord Reay | 1839-1921 | 1911 | |
| Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane | 1856-1928 | 1913 | |
| Prince Arthur Frederick Patrick Albert of Connaught | 1883-1938 | 1913 | |
| Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird | 1847-1923 | 1914 | |
| Simon Joseph Fraser, 14th Lord Lovat | 1871-1933 | 1915 | |
| John Charles Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 7th Duke of Buccleuch | 1864-1935 | 1917 | |
| Douglas Haig | 1861-1928 | 1917 | Later Earl Haig |
| John George Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl | 1871-1942 | 1918 | |
| David Alexander Edward Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford | 1871-1940 | 1921 | |
| Edward Albert Christian George, Prince of Wales | 1894-1972 | 1922 | Later Edward VIII, King of the United Kingdom |
| John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute | 1881-1947 | 1922 | |
| Prince Albert Frederick Arthur George, Duke of York | 1895-1952 | 1923 | Later George VI, King of the United Kingdom |
| Algernon Hawkins Thomond Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore | 1852-1930 | 1923 | |
| Ronald Crauford Munro-Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar | 1860-1934 | 1926 | |
| Sidney Herbert Elphinstone, 16th Lord Elphinstone | 1869-1955 | 1927 | |
| Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow | 1887-1952 | 1928 | |
| Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne | 1855-1944 | 1928 | |
| George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 5th Duke of Sutherland | 1888-1963 | 1929 | |
| John Maxwell Stirling-Maxwel | 1866-1956 | 1929 | |
| Charles Cospatrick Archibald Douglas-Home, 13th Earl of Home | 1873-1951 | 1930 | |
| Herbert Eustace Maxwell | 1845-1937 | 1933 | |
| Prince Henry William Frederick Albert, Duke of Gloucester | 1900-1974 | 1933 | |
| Edward James Bruce, 10th Earl of Elgin | 1881-1968 | 1933 | |
| Archibald Alexander Leslie-Melville, 13th Earl of Leven | 1890-1947 | 1934 | |
| Donald Walter Cameron | 1876-1951 | 1934 | |
| Prince George Edward Alexander Edmund, Duke of Kent | 1902-1942 | 1935 | |
| Queen Elizabeth | 1900-2002 | 1937 | |
| Iain Colquhoun | 1887-1948 | 1937 | |
| John James Dalrymple, 12th Earl of Stair | 1879-1961 | 1937 | |
| Philip Henry Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian | 1882-1940 | 1940 | |
| Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair | 1890-1970 | 1940 | Later Viscount Thurso |
| David Lyulph Gore Wolseley Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie | 1893-1968 | 1942 | |
| Andrew Browne Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham | 1883-1963 | 1945 | |
| James Graham, 6th Duke of Montrose | 1878-1954 | 1947 | |
| Robert Edward Harry Meyer Archibald Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery | 1882-1974 | 1947 | |
| Walter John Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 8th Duke of Buccleuch | 1894-1973 | 1949 | |
| Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton | 1903-1973 | 1951 | |
| George Baillie-Hamilton, 12th Earl of Haddington | 1894-1986 | 1951 | |
| Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | b. 1921 | 1952 | |
| Alexander Steven Bilsland, 1st Baron Bilsland | 1892-1970 | 1955 | |
| David Alexander Robert Lindsay, 28th Earl of Crawford | 1900-1975 | 1955 | |
| John Stirling | 1893-1975 | 1956 | |
| George Mathers, 1st Baron Mathers | 1886-1965 | 1956 | |
| Kenneth Fitzgerald Kinnaird, 12th Lord Kinnaird | 1880-1972 | 1957 | |
| Thomas Godfrey Polson Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan | 1895-1977 | 1957 | |
| Olaf V, King of Norway | 1903-1991 | 1962 | |
| Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, 14th Earl of Home | 1903-1995 | 1962 | Later Baron Home of the Hirsel |
| Robert Gordon Menzies | 1894-1978 | 1963 | |
| James Wilson Robertson | 1899-1983 | 1965 | |
| Francis David Charteris, 12th Earl of Wemyss and March | b. 1912 | 1966 | |
| John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith | 1889-1971 | 1968 | |
| Charles Hector Fitzroy Maclean, Baron Maclean | 1916-1990 | 1969 | |
| Simon Ramsay, 16th Earl of Dalhousie | 1914-1999 | 1971 | |
| Richard Nugent O'Connor | 1889-1981 | 1971 | |
| Ronald John Bilsland Colville, 2nd Baron Clydesmuir | 1917-1996 | 1972 | |
| Robert Ian Algernon Forbes-Leith | 1902-1973 | 1972 | |
| Harald Robert Leslie, Baron Birsay | 1905-1982 | 1973 | |
| John Scott Maclay, 1st Viscount Muirshiel | 1905-1992 | 1973 | |
| Donald Hamish Cameron of Lochiel | b. 1910 | 1973 | |
| Bernard Edward Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae | 1911-1980 | 1974 | |
| George Nigel Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk | 1906-1994 | 1976 | |
| William Hunter MacFadzean, Baron MacFadzean | 1903-1996 | 1976 | |
| Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales | b. 1948 | 1977 | |
| John Cameron, Baron Cameron | 1900-1996 | 1978 | |
| Walter Francis John Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch | b. 1923 | 1978 | |
| Andrew Douglas Alexander Bruce, 11th Earl of Elgin | b. 1924 | 1981 | |
| George Morgan Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth | b. 1921 | 1981 | |
| Neil Cameron, Baron Cameron of Balhousie | 1920-1985 | 1983 | |
| Crawford Murray Maclehose, Baron Maclehose | 1917-2000 | 1983 | |
| David George Coke Patrick Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie | b. 1926 | 1985 | |
| Iain Mark Tennant | b. 1919 | 1986 | |
| William Stephen Ian Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw | 1918-1999 | 1990 | |
| Fitzroy Hew Maclean | 1911-1996 | 1993 | |
| George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie | 1931-2003 | 1995 | |
| John Campbell Arbuthnott, 16th Viscount of Arbuthnott | b. 1924 | 1996 | |
| Robert Alexander Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford | b. 1927 | 1996 | |
| Lady Marion Anne Fraser | b. 1932 | 1996 | |
| Norman Somerville Macfarlane, Baron Macfarlane of Bearsden | b. 1926 | 1996 | |
| James Peter Hymers Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern | b. 1927 | 1997 | |
| HRH Anne, Princess Royal | b. 1950 | 2000 | |
| David Clive Wilson, Baron Wilson of Tillyorn | b. 1935 | 2000 | |
| Stewart Ross Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood | b. 1941 | 2002 | |
| William Erich Kinloch Anderson | b. 1936 | 2002 | |