Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire
This is a list of people who served as Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire.
List of Lord Lieutenants[]
Lord Lieutenant | Portrait | Birth | Death |
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Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon 1586–1595 |
1536 Ashby-de-la-Zouch[1] son of Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon and Katherine Pole |
14 December 1595 York aged 59 | |
Thomas Cecil, 2nd Baron Burghley 1599–1603 |
5 May 1542 Cambridge son of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley and Mary Cheke |
8 February 1623 London aged 81 | |
Edmund Sheffield, 3rd Baron Sheffield 1603–1619 |
7 December 1565 Oxford son of John Sheffield, 2nd Baron Sheffield of Butterwick and Douglas Howard |
20 October 1646 aged 83 | |
Emanuel Scrope, 1st Earl of Sunderland 1619–1628 |
1 August 1584 Hunsdon son of Thomas Scrope, 10th Baron Scrope of Bolton and Philadelphia Carey |
30 May 1630 aged 46 | |
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford 1628–1641 |
13 April 1593 London son of of Wentworth Woodhouse and Anne Atkins |
12 May 1641 Tower Hill aged 48 | |
Thomas Savile, 1st Viscount Savile 1641 |
14 September 1591 | 1658 aged 67 | |
Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex 1641–1642 |
11 January 1591 son of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex and Frances Walsingham |
14 September 1646 aged 55 |
From 1642 until 1660 the position was vacant, however after the Restoration, a separate lieutenant was appointed for each of the three ridings; see Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire, Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire and Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire.
References[]
- ^ Cross, Claire. "Hastings, Henry, third earl of Huntingdon". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/12574. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- J.C. Sainty (1970). "Lieutenancies of Counties, 1585–1642". Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research (Special Supplement No. 8).
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