p111
Sir John Gilmour's sister Maud did not marry the 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie, but his son.

p123
The quote on education attributed to Sir Archibald Sinclair was actually written by Noel Skelton.

p138, 143, 145
'Katherine', as in Katherine Elliot, should be spelled 'Katharine'.

p297
James Mackay (later Lord Mackay of Clashfern) should be John MacKay (later Lord MacKay of Ardbrecknish).

p308
John Mackay should be spelled MacKay.

p362
'not necessary better than quality' should read 'not necessarily better than quality'.

p393
Viscount Novar footnote 1: Viscount Younger was Sir John's father-in-law, not his brother-in-law.

p291/92
Sir John Gilmour was George Younger's great-uncle, not his great-great-uncle.

p417
Alistair Darling footnote 4: Lewis Robertson should be Lewis Macdonald.

p434
Raymond Robertson has been omitted from the index. He is mentioned on pp 329 and 330. George Robertson does not feature on pp 329-31, as his index entry suggests, but on pp330-31.

p292
George Younger was presented with a silver 'bed of nails' to mark him becoming the longest continually-serving secretary of state for Scotland, not to mark the centenary of the Scottish Office, although both events took place the same year.

p22
The 13th Earl of Dalhousie was not the grandson of Fox Maule Ramsay, the 11th Earl, but his cousin once removed (the 13th Earl's father, the 12th Earl, was a cousin of the 11th Earl).