2016 Ian Embelton – Chief Executive of The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association
2015 Len Scoullar – Provost of Argyll & Bute Council
2014 Lyn Bulloch – Depute Lieutenant for Argyll & Bute
2013 David Grevemberg – Chief Executive of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2014
2012 Rhona Simpson – Former Scotland and Great Britain Olympic Hockey Player
2011 Sean Batty – Meteoroligst and STV Weather Forecaster
2010 David Hayman – Scottish Film and Television Actor and Director
2009 Blythe Duff- Scottish Actress
2008 John Colum Crichton Stuart – 7th Marquess of Bute
2007 Peter K Timms CBE
2006 Matt Connell – Honorary Vice President RSPBA
2005 Major General Graeme C M Lamb CMG DSO OBE
2004 John A Mackenzie – President of Camanachd Association
2003 Jimmy Reid – Journalist and Broadcaster
2002 Lennie C G Moffat – Managing Director of TSC
2001 Lord Robert Smith – Chairman and Chief Exec. of Morgan Grenfell Private Equity Ltd.
2000 Lt Commander Tim Forrester – HMS Gannet
1999 Thomas Caldwell – Deputy Director Scottish Police College
1998 Firemaster John Jameson QFSM, AIFireE, CIMgt – Chieftain of Scottish Pipe Band Championships
1998 Col. Tom Lamb OBE, MA, CSt, FSA (Scot), DL
1997 Johnnie Beattie MBE, Scottish Actor and Comedian
1996 William Petrie OBE, JP, DL
1995 Col. Ken Shepherd – Commandant of Princess Louise Scottish Hospital Erskine
1994 Leslie Sharp QPM, LLB, FIMgt – Chief Constable of Strathclyde Police
1993 Commodore John Trewby ADC Royal Navy
1992 Tom B McMillan – Honorary Secretary of Bute Highland Games
1991 Mrs Ray Michie MP – MP Argyll & Bute
1990 Gerd Guisman – Burgermeister
1989 William Hunter JP – Chairman of Argyll & Bute Council
1988 Commander W K Benbow – Commander of HMS Rothesay
1987 Duke and Duchess of Rothesay – Prince and Princess of Wales
1986 Douglas Currie JP – Chairman of Argyll & Bute Council
1985 Right Hon. Lord MacLean of Duart & Morvern – Lord Lieutenant. of Argyll & Bute
1984 Hon. John J J Mackay JP MP – MP for Argyll & Bute
1983 Sheriff J Irvine Smith
1982 Commodore G F Rallings
1981 Charles E O’Halloran JP – Chairman of Strathclyde Regional Council
1980 Frank Spiers – Chairman of Argyll & Bute Council
1979 John Corrie MP – MP for Bute and North Ayrshire
1978 Lewis Laurie, St Catherine’s, Strachur
1977 James B Simpson – Bute Estate Factor
1976 Donald McCallum – Assistantt Secretary of Bute Highland Games
1975 E T F Spence – Chairman of Argyll & Bute Council
1974 Sir Fitzroy McLean MP
1973 Provost Donald McPhail MM
1972 Lord David Crichton Stuart
1971 Gerald S Rehm – Mayor Commissioner Florida, USA
1970 David Williamson – Chief Constable of Renfrew & Bute Constabulary