2008-09  Gordon Miller
2007-08  Michael T. Yeomans
2006-07  Brian W. Porteous
2005-06  David J.O. Dickson
2004-05  J. Douglas Anderson
2003-04  John G. Jackson
2002-03  Professor Geoffrey R. Dixon
2001-02  Harry H.L. Yeomans
2000-01  J. Douglas Anderson
1999-00  Allan G. Ramsay
1998-99  David W. Yeoman
1997-98  J.J.T. MacGregor
1996-97  J.J.T. MacGregor
1995-96  Alexander M. Martin
1994-95  Samuel P. Forrest
1993-94  Ian J. Scott   (Deacon Convener 1996-97)
1992-93  Robert J. Livingstone
1991-92  J. Michael Low   (Collector of the Trades House 2007-08)
1990-91  Joseph A. Reilly
1989-90  Arthur B. Grant
1988-89  Alexander T. Goodman
1987-88  George H. Jackson
1986-87  Austine F.H. Walker
1985-86  Kenneth E. Sandford   (Deacon Convener 1994-95)
1984-85  R. Gray Mickel
1983-84  Alexander W. Wilkie
1982-83  John B. Park
1981-82  Robert M. Rowan
1980-81  William E.M. Marshall
1979-80  Michael J. Sandford
1978-79  T. Iain Robertson
1977-78  David P.S. Jack
1976-77  Charles A. Robertson
1975-76  Ian B. Smail
1974-75  William A. Muir
1973-74  Eric W. Hargreaves
1972-73  William Ure
1971-72  G.M.A. McChlery
1970-71  Allan S. Daly
1969-70  John A.K. Lamont, CBE
1968-69  Ian M.F. Fair
1967-68  David B. Dickson
1966-67  Lord George Wallace
1965-66  A. Roy Duff
1964-65  S. Martin Smith
1963-64  William H. Hunter, CBE  (Deacon Convener 1986-87)
1962-63  S. Lothian Barclay, MBE
1961-62  John M. Stewart
1960-61  Robert A. Gray
1959-60  Duncan G. Thomas
1958-59  J. Hurll Jackson
1957-58  R. Stuart Lang
1956-57  A. Wilson Boyle
1955-56  R. Durward Clarkson
1954-55  W.J. Murray Galbraith
1953-54  William McChlery
1952-53  Leslie Milne
1951-52  T.W.W.B. Graham
1950-51  George P. Ross
1949-50  John K. Deans
1948-59  William Livey
1947-48  James Barclay
1946-47  William S. Gordon
1945-46  Hamish G. Hendry
1944-45  Robert J. Scott
1943-44  Alexander Craig
1942-43  David J. Barr
1941-42  Charles H. Chalmers
1940-41  Charles H. Chalmers
1939-40  Andrew Mickel
1938-39  George C. Murray
1937-38  Victor D. Warren
1936-37  James Miller
1935-36  G.K. Goalen
1934-35  George Mackenzie
1933-34  Henry L.G. Leask, MD
1932-33  John McCulloch
1931-32  Alexander McIsaac
1930-31  John H. Buchan
1929-30  Robert S. Stewart
1928-29  Thomas Ramsay
1927-28  James F.G. Cameron
1926-27  J.J. Ferguson
1925-26  Robert Gordon
1924-25  Matthew White
1923-24  P.D. Hendry
1922-23  William J. Hill
1921-22  John Robertson
1920-21  John K. Deans
1919-20  George C. McChlery
1918-19  John Gemmell
1917-18  Hugh C. Cree
1916-17  John Meikle
1915-16  Alexander Murdoch
1914-15  Robert Calder
1913-14  John Pollock
1912-13  John Gardner
1911-12  James Symington
1910-11  James Macara
1910       Alexander Donald
1909-10  James R. Sutherland
1908-09  James Macara
1907-08  Thomas Greenlees
1906-07  William McLeod Jardine
1905-06  John Mair
1904-05  James Chrystal
1903-04  James Murdoch
1902-03  Robert Scott
1901-02  Alexander Russell
1900-01  R.H.B. Thomson
1899-1900  William Watson
1898-99  John Clark, Junior
1897-98  George Walker
1896-97  Daniel Trainer
1895-96  Matthew White
1894-95  William Stuart Service
1893-94  John Bryce
1892-93  James Drynan
1891-92  Robert Paul
1890-91  John McMeekin
1889-90  William Thomson
1888-89  William Rodger
1887-88 Robert Ellison
1886-87  Andrew Clark
1885-86  David Hamilton
1884-85  James Miller
1883-84  Alexander Ogilvie
1882-83  Joseph Hutcheson
1881-82  Hugh Austin
1880-81  Andrew Graham Service
1879-80  Thomas Laidlaw
1878-79  John Belch
1877-78  John McMeekin
1875-76  Alexander Storrie
1872-73  Charles Thomson
1871-72  John Whyte
1870-71  James Yuill
1869-70  Alexander Storrie
1868-69  Peter Hutcheson
1867-68  Matthew Gilmour Neilson
1866-67  John Dunn
1865-66  Alexander Whyte
1864-65  James Hunter
1862-63  James Yuill
1861-62  William Austin
1860-61  John Clark
1859-60  John Pinkerton
1858-59  Robert Thomson
1857-58  David Service
1855-56  Duncan Smith
1854-55  John Clark
1852-53  John Pinkerton
1851-52  John Graham
1848-49  Duncan Clark
1846-47  Duncan Smith
1844-45  John Miller Senior
1842-43  William Clark
1841-42  John Graham
1839-40  Duncan Smith