Lord Provost

noun

Lord Provost

the provost of one of the five major Scottish cities (Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee, and Perth)

Adam Black was twice lord provost of Edinburgh, and represented the city in parliament from 1856 to 1865.

His Edinburgh publisher; a bookseller, afterwards Lord Provost of the city.

William Creech, bookseller and twice lord provost of Edinburgh, died.

The lord-provost himself was more than suspected of being a Jacobite at heart.

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