New Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Perth and Kinross

On the 20th February 2024, Gordon Kenneth Stephen Leckie Lord-Lieutenant of Perth and Kinross has commissioned the following person to become Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Perth and Kinross.

Miss Alexandra Margaret Cairncross DL

New Deputy Lieutenant of Perth and Kinross

Mr Gordon Kenneth Stephen Leckie, Lord-Lieutenant of Perth and Kinross has commissioned the following person to become a Deputy Lieutenant of Perth and Kinross.

Mrs Catherine Star Violetta Drummond-Herdman

New Deputy Lieutenant of Perth and Kinross

Mr Gordon Kenneth Stephen Leckie, Lord-Lieutenant of Perth and Kinross has commissioned the following person to become a Deputy Lieutenant of Perth and Kinross.

Ms Marysia Winifred Lewis

New Deputy Lieutenant of Perth and Kinross

Gordon Kenneth Stephen Leckie, Lord-Lieutenant of Perth and Kinross has commissioned the following person to become a Deputy Lieutenant of Perth and Kinross.

Jennifer Erskine

New Vice Lord Lieutenant of Perth and Kinross

Gordon Kenneth Stephen Leckie, Lord-Lieutenant of Perth and Kinross has appointed the following person to the position of Vice Lord Lieutenant of Perth and Kinross.

Major David Allister John Noble OBE

New Deputy Lieutenant of Perth and Kinross

Gordon Kenneth Stephen Leckie, Lord-Lieutenant of Perth and Kinross has commissioned the following person to become a Deputy Lieutenant of Perth and Kinross.

Major Christopher Roderick Gover McIntosh

New Vice Lord Lieutenant of Perth and Kinross

Gordon Kenneth Stephen Leckie, Lord-Lieutenant of Perth and Kinross has appointed the following person to the position of Vice Lord Lieutenant of Perth and Kinross.

Major Andrew Duncan Gordon QVRM TD DL

New Lord Lieutenant of Perth and Kinross

Mr Gordon Kenneth Stephen Leckie has been appointed by Her Majesty the Queen to become Lord Lieutenant of Perth and Kinross to succeed Brigadier Sir Melville Jameson KCVO CBE who retired on 17 July 2019.

KCVO for Lord-Lieutenant of Perth and Kinross

Brigadier Melville Stewart Jameson CBE has been appointed Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) for his service as Lord-Lieutenant of Perth and Kinross.

New Deputy Lieutenants of Perth and Kinross

Brigadier Melville Jameson CBE, Lord-Lieutenant of Perth and Kinross has commissioned the following people to become Deputy Lieutenants of Perth and Kinross.

The Right Honourable the Earl of Kinnoull
Mr Charles Gallagher

Life Peerage for Scottish MEP

Her Majesty The Queen has granted Mr Ian James Duncan MEP the title of Baron Duncan of Springbank, of Springbank in the County of Perth for the duration of his life under the Life Peerage Act of 1958.

Mr Duncan was nominated for a Life Peerage by the Prime Minister following his appointment to the Government as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Scottish and Welsh Offices.

As Mr Duncan is not a Member of Parliament (MP) he has to be appointed to the House of Lords so he can take his role in the Government.

Lord Duncan of Springbank will sit in the House of Lords on behalf of the Conservative Party.

New Deputy Lieutenants of Perth and Kinross

Brigadier Melville Jameson CBE, Lord-Lieutenant of Perth and Kinross has commissioned the following people to become Deputy Lieutenants of Perth and Kinross.

Ms Susan Jardine Paterson
Ms Alexandra Cairncross
Mr George Fleming

New Deputy Lieutenants of Perth and Kinross

Brigadier Melville Jameson CBE, Lord-Lieutenant of Perth and Kinross commissioned the following to become Deputy Lieutenants of Perth and Kinross.
Major Charles K Dunphie
Lt Col G A Middlemiss
The Lady Sara Cornwallis
Mr G K Stephen Leckie
Mr Angus MacDonald

Queen Honours Towns

On the 14th of March 2012 Her Majesty the Queen honoured the following three towns with title of city.

Chelmsford in Essex

Perth in Perthshire

St Asaph in Denbighshire

The grant of city status is honorary and can only be awarded by the Queen, it gives the towns no additional power or funding.