The Prior of St Mary's Isle (later Commendator of St Mary's Isle) was the head of the Augustinian monastic community of St Mary's Isle Priory, in Kirkcudbrightshire, Galloway. The following is a list of priors and commendators:
List of priors
William, x 1220
David, 1273
William de Kars, 1347
Stephen de Malcarston, 1381-1406
Patrick Wotherspoon, 1423-1426
John de Inverkeithing, 1423
Richard de Aberdour, 1424
Henry de Dryden, 1424-1426
James Cameron, 1426-1446
John de Wardlaw, 1446-1481
Robert Bellenden (Ballantyne), 1481-1484
John Crawford, 1484-1512 x 1515
William Crawford, 1501
John Crichton, 1515-1525
George Crichton, 1525-1526
David Douglas, 1526
William Douglas, 1526-1528
John Campbell, 1526
Adam Blackadder, 1527
John Lamb, 1528
John Leslie, 1528
Gavin Leslie, 1528
John Campbell (again), 1528
Robert Erskine, 1528-1532
List of commendators
John Douglas, 1528-1536
David de Voyles, 1530
David Paniter, 1536-1547
Nicholas Williamson, 1536
Robert Stirling, 1546-1558
William Heslop, 1558
Robert Richardson, 1558-1566
John Wilson, 1558
John Stevenson, 1561
William Rutherford, 1566-1587
Notes
Bibliography
Cowan, Ian B. & Easson, David E., Medieval Religious Houses: Scotland With an Appendix on the Houses in the Isle of Man, Second Edition, (London, 1976), pp. 96-7 Watt, D.E.R. & Shead, N.F. (eds.), The Heads of Religious Houses in Scotland from the 12th to the 16th Centuries, The Scottish Records Society, New Series, Volume 24, (Edinburgh, 2001), pp. 193-7