Lord Lieutenant of Somerset
This is an incomplete list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Somerset Custos Rotulorum of Somerset .
Lord Lieutenants of Somerset
John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford 1552–1555William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke 12 May 1559 – 17 March 1570vacant Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke 3 July 1585 – 19 January 1601Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford 24 April 1601 – 6 April 1621William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke 14 April 1621 – 10 April 1630Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke 12 August 1630 – 30 July 1640 jointly with William Seymour, 1st Marquess of Hertford 26 March 1639 – 1642 jointly with Philip Herbert, Lord Herbert 30 July 1640 – 1642William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford 25 March 1642 – 23 August 1643 (Parliamentarian)Interregnum William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset 13 August 1660 – 24 October 1660James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde 22 December 1660 – 22 August 1672John Seymour, 4th Duke of Somerset 22 August 1672 – 29 April 1675Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Winchilsea 4 June 1675 – 16 July 1683Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset 16 July 1683 – 11 August 1687Henry Waldegrave, 1st Baron Waldegrave 11 August 1687 – 6 November 1688Ralph Stawell, 1st Baron Stawell 6 November 1688 – 1689[ 1] [ 2] Maurice Berkeley, 3rd Viscount Fitzhardinge 13 April 1689 – 13 June 1690Thomas Osborne, 1st Marquess of Carmarthen 24 June 1690 – 3 February 1691 jointly with William Cavendish, 4th Earl of Devonshire 24 June 1690 – 3 February 1691 and Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset 24 June 1690 – 3 February 1691James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde 3 February 1691 – 3 December 1714Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery 3 December 1714 – 1 October 1715George Dodington 1 October 1715 – 28 March 1720George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe 20 June 1720 – 17 February 1744John Poulett, 2nd Earl Poulett 17 February 1744 – 5 November 1764Percy Wyndham-O'Brien, 1st Earl of Thomond 27 November 1764 – 16 March 1774Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford 16 March 1774 – 5 August 1792John Poulett, 4th Earl Poulett 15 November 1792 – 14 January 1819Thomas Thynne, 2nd Marquess of Bath 23 February 1819 – 27 March 1837Henry Fox-Strangways, 3rd Earl of Ilchester 28 April 1837 – 1 June 1839Edward Portman, 1st Viscount Portman 1 June 1839 – 28 June 1864Richard Boyle, 9th Earl of Cork 28 June 1864 – 22 June 1904Thomas Thynne, 5th Marquess of Bath 1904 – 9 June 1946Sir James Somerville 1946 – 19 March 1949William Jolliffe, 4th Baron Hylton 10 August 1949 – 14 November 1967Cecil Townley Mitford-Slade 17 April 1968 – 1978Sir Walter Luttrell 3 May 1978 – 10 November 1994[ 3] Sir John Wills, 4th Baronet 10 November 1994 – 26 August 1998[ 4] Elizabeth Gass, Lady Gass 12 February 1999 – 2 March 2015[ 5] Anne Maw 2 March 2015 – 29 October 2022[ 6] Mohammed Saddiq 29 October 2022 – present[ 7]
References
J.C. Sainty (1970). "Lieutenancies of Counties, 1585–1642". Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research (Special Supplement No. 8): 31.J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660–1974 . London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
^ Dunning, Robert (1983). A History of Somerset . Chichester: Phillimore & Co. pp. 108–109. ISBN 0-85033-461-6 ^ Sir George Floyd Duckett , Penal laws and Test act: questions touching their repeal propounded in 1687–8 by James II (Printed by T. Wilson, 1882), pp. 389, 415^ London Gazette , issue no.47525, 5 May 1978^ London Gazette , issue no.53849, 15 November 1994^ London Gazette , issue no.55408, 19 February 1999^ "Anne Maw appointed as Lord-Lieutenant for Somerset" . Somerset County Gazette . 26 February 2015. Retrieved 4 March 2015 .^ "Appointment of Lord-Lieutenant of Somerset: 1 August 2022" . GOV.UK .
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