Lord Lieutenant of Orkney and Shetland

This is a list of people who served as Lord Lieutenant of Orkney and Shetland. The Lieutenancy was replaced by two Lieutenancies, the Lord Lieutenant of Orkney and the Lord Lieutenant of Shetland, in 1948.

James Douglas, 11th Earl of Morton 1715–?{{cite web|url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/Morton1457.htm |title=Morton, Earl of (S, 1457/8) |access-date=2011-02-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100627211301/http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/Morton1457.htm |archive-date=2010-06-27 }}
George Douglas, 13th Earl of Morton 1735–1738
Thomas Dundas, 1st Baron Dundas 17 March 1794 – 14 June 1820Joseph Haydn and Horace Ockerby, The Book of Dignities, London 1894, p. 511{{London Gazette |issue=13652|date=6 May 1794| page=409}}
vacant
Lawrence Dundas, 1st Earl of Zetland 10 May 1831 – 19 February 1839
John Dundas 30 March 1839 – 14 February 1866
Frederick Dundas 7 March 1866 – 26 October 1872
John Dundas 18 December 1872 – 13 September 1892
Malcolm Alfred Laing 5 November 1892 – 10 December 1917
vacant
Sir William Cheyne, 1st Baronet 1919–1930
Alfred Baikie 1930–1947

Vice Lieutenants

Lieutenant-General Frederick William Traill-Burroughs 17 January 1900{{London Gazette| issue=27156 |page=438 |date=23 January 1900}}

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