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A lord provost ( Scottish Gaelic: Àrd-Phrobhaist) is the convenor of the local authority, the civic head and the lord-lieutenant of one of the principal cities of Scotland. [1] [2] [3] The office is similar to that of a lord mayor. [4] [5] Only the cities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow have a lord provost; other Scottish local authorities have provosts or convenors, which are similar offices to that of a mayor (as a presiding officer of the local council, not as a chief executive of a local authority). [6] Perth (as a city) previously termed its civil leader a "lord provost", but from the Second World War onwards has preferred the simple term Provost of Perth.
A lord provost has a higher status than a lord mayor in other parts of the United Kingdom.[ citation needed] They are ex officio the lord-lieutenant for that city, in accordance with section 1 of the Lieutenancies Act 1997, which allows the city council to choose its own representative for the monarch.
The lord provosts of Edinburgh and Glasgow enjoy the style of " The Right Honourable" before their office, but not their names.
Permission to use the title is granted to a city by the monarch, under the royal prerogative, acting on the advice of government ministers.
See also
- Provost (civil)
- List of provosts of Aberdeen
- List of provosts of Dundee
- List of provosts of Edinburgh
- List of provosts of Glasgow
References
- ^ Maver, Irene (2007). "The Scottish Provost Since 1800: Tradition, Continuity and Change in the Leadership of 'Local Self-Government'". Heads of the Local State. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-15672-1.
- ^ McConnell, Allan (2004). Scottish Local Government. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-2005-0.
- ^ Garrard, John (28 November 2017). Heads of the Local State: Mayors, Provosts and Burgomasters since 1800. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-15670-7.
- ^ McCrone, David (2022). Who Runs Edinburgh?. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-1-4744-9830-2.
- ^ Lynch, Peter (2001). Scottish Government and Politics: An Introduction. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-1287-1.
- ^ Morris, Robert J.; Trainor, Richard H. (5 July 2017). Urban Governance: Britain and Beyond Since 1750. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-351-87656-8.
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