Northern Lighthouse Board

| amendments = Erection of Lighthouses Act 1788 | repeal_date = 1 May 1855 | repealing_legislation = Merchant Shipping Repeal Act 1854 | related_legislation = | status = Repealed | original_text = https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-c74dX1OKagC&pg=PA840 | collapsed = yes }} }} The NLB was formed by an act of Parliament, the (26 Geo. 3. c. 101), as the Commissioners of Northern Light Houses, largely at the urging of the lawyer and politician George Dempster ("Honest George"), to oversee the construction and operation of four Scottish lighthouses: Kinnaird Head, North Ronaldsay, Scalpay and Mull of Kintyre, for which they were empowered to borrow up to £1,200 (). Until then, the only major…

in the canton]] Most of the commissioners have always been ex officio appointments. The original commissioners appointed in 1786 were the Scottish law agents of the Crown, the sheriffs of Scotland's coastal counties, and the provosts and lord provosts of Scottish cities and towns with strong mercantile interests. Reform of local government and sheriffdoms have since resulted in changes. Previous commissioners include Richard Vary Campbell. The current Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses, as provided by schedule 8 to the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, are the Lord Advocate and the Solicitor General for Scotland; the lords provost of Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen, the conveners of the…