Editing Leith (section)

==Former provosts==
Source:<ref>{{cite web |title=PROVOSTS OF LEITH 1833–1920 |url=http://www.leithhistory.co.uk/2007/05/26/provosts-of-leith-1833-1920/ |publisher=History of Leith, Edinburgh |access-date=15 February 2017 |archive-date=16 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216060228/http://www.leithhistory.co.uk/2007/05/26/provosts-of-leith-1833-1920/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

* Adam White (1760–1843), served 1833–1839
* James Reoch (1768–1845), served 1839–1845
* Thomas Hutchison (1796–1852), served 1845–1848
* George Adiston McLaren (1801–1881), served 1848–1851
* Robert Philip (d.1887), served 1851–1855
* James Taylor (1800–1890), served 1855–1860
* [[William Lindsay (shipowner)|William Lindsay]]  (1819–1884), served 1860–1866
* James Watt (1806–1881), served 1866–1875
* [[John Henderson (Provost)|Dr John Henderson]] (1818–1901), served 1875–1881, instigated the Leith Improvement Plan and creator of [[Henderson Street]]
* [[James Pringle (Provost)|James Pringle]] (1822–1886), served 1881–1886
* [[John Henderson (Provost)|Dr John Henderson]] (1818–1901), served second term 1886–1887 following Pringle's death in office
* [[Thomas Aitken]] (1833–1912), served 1887–1893
* John Bennet (1820–1902), served 1893–1899
* Sir [[Richard Mackie]] (1851–1923), served 1899–1908
* [[Malcolm Smith (Scottish politician)|Malcolm Smith]] (1856–1935), served 1908–1917
* John Allan Lindsay (1865–1942), served 1917–1920, the final Provost of Leith