Lord High Commissioner

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Lord High Commissioner is the style of High Commissioners, i.e. direct representatives of the monarch, in three cases in the Kingdom of Scotland and the United Kingdom, two of which are no longer extant. Consequently the remaining office is often known in short simply as the Lord High Commissioner.

Contents

1 Ecclesiastic: Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
2 Historical Political offices

2.1 Lord High Commissioner to the Scottish Parliament
2.2 Ionian Islands Protectorate

3 See also
4 Sources, references and external links

Ecclesiastic: Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland

Main article: Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland

This Lord High Commissioner is the British Sovereign's personal representative to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (the Kirk), reflecting the Church of Scotland's role as the national church of Scotland, and the Sovereign's role as a member of that Church.

Historical Political offices

Lord High Commissioner to the Scottish Parliament

See Lord High Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland

Ionian Islands Protectorate

There were ten incumbents in 1815-1863, representing the British protecting power to the United States of the Ionian Islands as a federal Septinsular Republic of seven formerly Venetian (see Provveditore) Ionian islands (Corfu, Cephalonia, Zante, Santa Maura, Ithaca, Cerigo and Paxos), officially a joint protectorate of the Allied Christian Powers, de facto a UK amical protectorate. The office ceased when the islands were integrated in independent Greece in 1864.

The incumbents were:

1815–1823: Sir Thomas Maitland
1823–1832: Sir Frederick Adam
1832–1835: The Lord Nugent
1835–1840: Howard Douglas
1840–1843: James Alexander Stewart Mackenzie
1843–1849: The Lord Seaton
1849–1855: Sir Henry George Ward
1855–1859: Sir John Young
1859–1859: William Ewart Gladstone
1859–1863: Sir Henry Knight Storks

Sources, references and external links