Lord Lieutenant of Essex

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This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Essex.

• John Petre, 1st Baron Petre
• John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford 1558–?
• Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester 1585–1588
• William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley 1588–1598
• vacant?
• Robert Radclyffe, 5th Earl of Sussex 1603–1629 jointly with
• Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick 1625–1642 jointly with
• Richard Weston, 1st Earl of Portland 1629–1635 and
• William Maynard, 1st Baron Maynard 1635–1640 and
• James Hay, 2nd Earl of Carlisle 1641–1642
• Interregnum
• Aubrey de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford 1660–1687
• Thomas Petre, 6th Baron Petre 1687–1688
• Aubrey de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford 1688–1703
• Francis North, 2nd Baron Guilford 1703–1705
• Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers 1705–1712
• Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke 1712–1715
• Henry Howard, 6th Earl of Suffolk 1714–1718
• Charles William Howard, 7th Earl of Suffolk 1718–1722
• Henry O'Brien, 8th Earl of Thomond 1722–1741
• Benjamin Mildmay, 1st Earl Fitzwalter 1741–1756
• William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford 1756–1781?
• John Waldegrave, 3rd Earl Waldegrave 1781–1784
• John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden 1784–1797
• Richard Griffin, 2nd Baron Braybrooke 1797–1825
• Henry Maynard, 3rd Viscount Maynard 1825–1865
• Thomas Crosbie William Trevor, 22nd Baron Dacre 1865–1869
• Sir Thomas Burch Western, 1st Baronet 1869–1873
• Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford 1873–1892
• John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh 1892–1901
• Francis Richard Charles Guy Greville, 5th Earl of Warwick 1901–1919
• Amelius Mark Richard Lockwood, 1st Baron Lambourne 1919–1928
• Sir Richard Beale Colvin 1928–1936
• Sir Francis Henry Douglas Charlton Whitmore, 1st Baronet 1936–1958
• Sir John Archibald Ruggles-Brise, 2nd Baronet 1958–1978
• Admiral Sir Andrew Lewis 1978–1992
• Robin Henry Charles Neville, 10th Baron Braybrooke 1992–2002 (appointed August 1, 1992)^[1]
• John Patrick Lionel Petre, 18th Baron Petre 2002–present

[edit] References

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

1. ^ London Gazette, issue no.53011, August 6, 1992