# Lord provost

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{{Short description|Head political office of major Scottish cities}}
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A '''lord provost''' ({{langx|gd|Àrd-Phrobhaist}}) is the [convenor](/source/convenor) of the [local authority](/source/local_authority), the civic head and the [lord-lieutenant](/source/lord-lieutenant) of one of the principal cities of [Scotland](/source/Scotland).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Maver |first1=Irene |title=Heads of the Local State |date=2007 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-351-15672-1 |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781351156721-3/scottish-provost-since-1800-tradition-continuity-change-leadership-local-self-government-irene-maver |chapter=The Scottish Provost Since 1800: Tradition, Continuity and Change in the Leadership of ‘Local Self-Government’|pages=29–46 |doi=10.4324/9781351156721-3 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=McConnell |first1=Allan |title=Scottish Local Government |date=2004 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |isbn=978-0-7486-2005-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6aDowAEACAAJ |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Garrard |first1=John |title=Heads of the Local State: Mayors, Provosts and Burgomasters since 1800 |date=28 November 2017 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-351-15670-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZJ1ADwAAQBAJ |language=en}}</ref> The office is similar to that of a [lord mayor](/source/lord_mayor).<ref>{{cite book |last1=McCrone |first1=David |title=Who Runs Edinburgh? |date=2022 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |jstor=10.3366/j.ctv32vqmsc |isbn=978-1-4744-9830-2 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv32vqmsc}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Lynch |first1=Peter |title=Scottish Government and Politics: An Introduction |date=2001 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |isbn=978-0-7486-1287-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tZ66wAEACAAJ |language=en}}</ref> Only the cities of [Aberdeen](/source/Lord_Provost_of_Aberdeen), [Dundee](/source/Lord_Provost_of_Dundee), [Edinburgh](/source/Lord_Provost_of_Edinburgh), [Stirling](/source/Stirling)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Civic leader now known as ‘Lord Provost’ to mark 900th anniversary of Stirling |url=https://www.stirling.gov.uk/news/civic-leader-now-known-as-lord-provost-to-mark-900th-anniversary-of-stirling/ |access-date=2024-10-25 |website=Stirling Council |language=en}}</ref> and [Glasgow](/source/Lord_Provost_of_Glasgow) have a lord provost; other Scottish local authorities have [provosts](/source/provost_(civil)) or convenors, which are similar offices to that of a [mayor](/source/mayor) (as a presiding officer of the local council, not as a chief executive of a local authority).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Morris |first1=Robert J. |last2=Trainor |first2=Richard H. |title=Urban Governance: Britain and Beyond Since 1750 |date=5 July 2017 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-351-87656-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rkQrDwAAQBAJ |language=en}}</ref> [Perth](/source/Perth%2C_Scotland) (as a city) previously termed its civil leader a "lord provost", but from the [Second World War](/source/Second_World_War) onwards has preferred the simple term [Provost of Perth](/source/Provost_of_Perth).

A lord provost has a higher status than a [lord mayor](/source/lord_mayor) in other parts of the [United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom).{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} They are [ex officio](/source/ex_officio) the lord-lieutenant for that city, in accordance with section 1 of the [Lieutenancies Act 1997](/source/Lieutenancies_Act_1997), which allows the city council to choose its own representative for the monarch.

The lord provosts of [Edinburgh](/source/Lord_Provost_of_Edinburgh) and [Glasgow](/source/Lord_Provost_of_Glasgow) enjoy the style of "[The Right Honourable](/source/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](/source/royal_prerogative), acting on the advice of government ministers.

==See also==
*[Provost (civil)](/source/Provost_(civil))
*[List of provosts of Aberdeen](/source/List_of_provosts_of_Aberdeen)
*[List of provosts of Dundee](/source/List_of_provosts_of_Dundee)
*[List of provosts of Edinburgh](/source/List_of_provosts_of_Edinburgh)
*[List of provosts of Glasgow](/source/List_of_provosts_of_Glasgow)
*[Lord mayor](/source/Lord_mayor)
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