appointment by the Secretary of State for Scotland a whole-time Registrar General, Dr James Craufurd Dunlop, (previously Medical Superintendent of Statistics) was appointed. On the formation of National Records of Scotland, the positions of Registrar General and Keeper of the Records of Scotland were initially kept separate, but on the retirement of Duncan Macniven in August 2011, George Mackenzie was appointed Registrar General in addition to his existing role as Keeper. List of Registrars General for Scotland William Pitt Dundas, 12 September 1854 – 28 April 1880 Roger Montgomerie, 19 April 1880 – 25 October 1880 William Pitt Dundas, C.B., 17 November 1880 – 12 January 1881 Sir Stair Agnew, K.C.B., 13 January 1881 – 30 April 1909 Sir James Patten McDougall, K.C.B., 1 May 1909 – 7 March 1919 Dr. James Craufurd Dunlop, 1 January 1921 – 2 September 1930 Andrew Froude, I.S.O., 3 September 1930 – 14 February 1937 James Gray Kyd, C.B.E. FRSE, 1 September 1937 – 30 November 1948 Edmund Albert Hogan, C.B.E., 1 December 1948 – 31 May 1959 Alexander Burt Taylor CBE D Litt, 1 June 1959 – 4 September 1966 James Allan Ford CB MC, September 1966 - September 1969 Archibald L Rennie, October 1969 - 11 June 1973 William Baird, 12 June 1973 – 3 August 1978 Victor Colvin Stewart, 4 August 1978 – 12 April 1982 Dr Charles Milne Glennie CBE, 13 April 1982 – 31 October 1994 James Meldrum, 1 November 1994 – 21 February 1999 John Randall, 22 February 1999 – 1 August 2003 Duncan Macniven, 4 August 2003 – 5 August 2011 George MacKenzie, 8 August 2011 – 28 September 2012 Tim Ellis, 4 February 2013 - April 2018 Anne Slater (Interim), April 2018 - 16 December 2018 Paul Lowe, 17 December 2018 – present New Register House New Register House, which houses the registration side of the former GROS's business, is close to the east end of Princes Street in Edinburgh. It was designed by Robert Matheson, the Clerk of Works at the Office of Her Majesty's Works in Scotland. Initially, the General Register Office had been located in General Register House. The building was erected on its present site near the Old Register House. The site was acquired in 1856 and the building was opened on 30 March 1861, though not completed until 1864 at a total cost of £40,000. Other buildings GROS had two other