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The Secretary for Scotland was chief minister in charge of the Scottish Office in the United Kingdom government. The post of Secretary of State for Scotland existed briefly after the Union of the Parliament of Scotland and the Parliament of England in 1707 till the Jacobite rising of 1745.
After the rising, responsibility for Scotland lay primarily with the office of the Home Secretary, usually exercised by the Lord Advocate. 1885 saw the creation of the Scottish Office and the post of Secretary for Scotland. From 1892 the Secretary for Scotland sat in cabinet, but the position wasn't officially recognised as a full member of the cabinet of the United Kingdom until the Secretary for Scotland post was upgraded to full Secretary of State rank as Secretary of State for Scotland in 1926.

Secretaries for Scotland (1885-1926)

Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond (August 17, 1885 - January 28, 1886)
George Otto Trevelyan (February 8, 1886 - March, 1886) (Resigned)
John William Ramsay, 13th Earl of Dalhousie (April 5, 1886 - July 20, 1886)
Arthur Balfour (August 5, 1886 - March 11, 1887)
Schomberg Henry Kerr, 9th Marquess of Lothian (March 11, 1887 - August 11, 1892)
George Otto Trevelyan (August 18, 1892 - June 21, 1895)
Alexander Hugh Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh (June 29, 1895 - October 9, 1903) (Resigned)
Andrew Murray (October 9, 1903 - February 2, 1905)
John Adrian Louis Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow (February 2, 1905 - December 4, 1905)
John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland (December 10, 1905 - February 13, 1912)
Thomas McKinnon Wood (February 13, 1912 - July 9, 1916)
Harold Tennant (July 9, 1916 - December 5, 1916)
Robert Munro (December 10, 1916 - October 19, 1922)
Ronald Munro-Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar (October 24, 1922 - January 22, 1924)
William Adamson (January 22, 1924 - November 3, 1924)
Sir John Gilmour (November 6, 1924 - July 26, 1926)

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