Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire

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This is an incomplete list of people who served as Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire.

• Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke 1587–1601
• Edward la Zouche, 11th Baron Zouche 1602–1607
• Ralph Eure, 3rd Baron Eure 1607–1617
• Thomas Gerard, 1st Baron Gerard 1617
• William Compton, 1st Earl of Northampton 1617–1630
• John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater 1631–1642
• Interregnum
• Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield 1689–1694
• Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury 1694–1696
• Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield 1696–1701
• William Stanley, 9th Earl of Derby 1702
• Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley 1702–1713
• Other Windsor, 2nd Earl of Plymouth 1713–1714
• Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley 1714–1725
• George Cholmondeley, 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley 1725–1733
• George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley 1733–1761?
• Thomas Wynn, 1st Baron Newborough 1761–1781?
• Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley 1781–1822
• Thomas Assheton-Smith 1822–1828
• Peter Robert Drummond-Willoughby, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby 1828–1851
• Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet 1851–1866
• Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn 1866–1886
• John Ernest Greaves 1886–1933
• Hugh Douglas-Pennant, 4th Baron Penrhyn 1933–1941
• Sir William Wynne-Finch 1941–1960
• Sir Michael Duff, 3rd Baronet 1960–1974

The post was abolished in 1974 and replaced with that of Lord Lieutenant of Gwynedd.

[edit] References

• J.C. Sainty (1970). "Lieutenancies of Counties, 1585–1642". Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research (Special Supplement No. 8).