Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire
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This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire.
- William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton 1547–?
- Edward North, 1st Baron North 1559–1564
- Roger North, 2nd Baron North 1588–1600
- vacant
- Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk 1602–1626
- Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk 1626–1640
- William Maynard, 1st Baron Maynard 1640
- Dudley North, 3rd Baron North 1640–1642
- Interregnum
- James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk 1660–1681
- Robert Bruce, 2nd Earl of Elgin 1681
- William Alington, 3rd Baron Alington 1681–1684
- Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Sandwich 1684–1686
- Henry Jermyn, 3rd Baron Jermyn 1686–1688
- William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford 1689–1700
- Lord Edward Russell 1700–1701
- Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford 1701–1711
- William North, 6th Baron North (in 1714)
- Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford 1714–?
- Henry Bromley, 1st Baron Montfort of Horseheath 1730–1742
- Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle 1742–1757
- Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke 1757–1790
- Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke 1790–1834
- Charles Philip Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke 1834–1873
- Charles Watson Townley 1874 – 1893
- Alexander Peckover, 1st Baron Peckover 1893–1906
- Thomas Charles Agar-Robartes 4th Viscount Clifden December 12, 1906 – 1915[1]
- Charles Robert Whorwood Adeane 1915– 1943
- Richard George Briscoe 1943 – 1958
- Robert Henry Parker 1958 – 1965
- Geoffrey Taylor Burrell 1965 – 1974 †
In 1974, a new larger lieutenancy county of Cambridgeshire was formed from those of Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely and Huntingdon and Peterborough
- Geoffrey Taylor Burrell 1974–1975 (former Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely), with a lieutenant:
- Dennis George Ruddock Herbert, 2nd Baron Hemingford 1974– (former Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdon and Peterborough)
- Hon. Peter Esmé Brassey 1975–1981
- Sir Peter Proby, 2nd Baronet 1981–1984
- Michael Bevan 1985–?
- James Gee Pascoe Crowden July 3, 1992–2003[2]
- Hugh Duberly CBE 2003–present
† renamed Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely in 1965
[edit] References
- J.C. Sainty (1970). "Lieutenancies of Counties, 1585–1642". Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research (Special Supplement No. 8).