Lord Provost

They were strongly suspected of burning the house of Prestonfield, belonging to Sir James Dick, the Lord Provost; and certainly were guilty of creating considerable riots in —

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

When the Lord Provost had returned to his chair, I was shown the Councillors themselves at their mahogany tables, in their beautiful Council-chamber, and I made notes -- not of the debate, as the lynx-eyed reporter, who counted the number of times I sucked my pencil, imagined -- but of the improved appearance of George Square under snow.

Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895

An old woman might have been in some danger; and as for my Lord Provost, as they call him, if they had clipped off some of his fat acres, it would have been some atonement for the needless brave he put on me in St. John’s church.”

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

Dr. Greville, &c. The Lord Provost proceeded to read extracts from the speeches made at the meeting, showing that the sentiments of the inhabitants of Edinburgh, so far back as 1830, as uttered by some of its most distinguished men, -- not violent agitators, but ministers of the gospel, promoters of peace and order, and every good and every benevolent purpose, -- were in favor of the immediate and total abolition of slavery in our colonies.

Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1 Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853

The Lord Provost was ordered up to London in custody; the magistrates summoned to answer the indictment, and a bill was introduced into the House of Commons “to disable Alexander Wilson, Esq., the principal magistrate during the riots, from ever after holding any office of magistracy in Edinburgh or Great Britain; to subject him to imprisonment for a year; to abolish the town guard, and to take away the gates of the nether Bowport of the city.”

Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe Harris, Thaddeus M 1838

-- This day had calls from Lord Provost and Mr. Rutherford

The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801

An old woman might have been in some danger; and as for my Lord Provost, as they call him, if they had clipped off some of his fat acres, it would have been some atonement for the needless brave he put on me in St. John's church. "

The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day Walter Scott 1801