Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire

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

[edit] Lord Lieutenants of Herefordshire until 1974

• 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
• Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort 1660–1689
• Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield 1689–1694
• Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury 1694–1704
• Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent 1704–?

incomplete

• Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby 1714–1721

incomplete

• John Bateman, 2nd Viscount Bateman 1747–1801?
• George Capell, 5th Earl of Essex 1801–1817
• John Somers Cocks, 2nd Baron (& 1st Earl from 1821) Somers 1817–1841
• John Sommers Somers-Cocks, 2nd Earl Somers 1845–1852
• William Bateman Bateman-Hanbury, 2nd Baron Bateman 1852–1901
• Sir John Richard Cotterell, 4th Baronet 1905–1933
• Arthur Herbert Tennyson Somers-Cocks, 6th Baron Somers 1933–1944
• Sir Richard Charles Cotterell, 5th Baronet 1945–1957
• James Purdon Lewes Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin 1957–1960
• John Francis Maclean 1960–1974 †

In 1974 Worcestershire merged with Herefordshire to form the new administrative county of Hereford and Worcester, which also became a new lieutenancy area (see Lord Lieutenant of Hereford and Worcester). After the abolition of Hereford and Worcester in 1998 after only 24 years, the two counties again became two separate administrative counties as well as two separate lieutenancy areas.

† Became Lord Lieutenant of Hereford and Worcester on April 1, 1974.

[edit] Lord Lieutenants of Herefordshire 1998–present

• Sir Thomas Dunne 1998–present

[edit] References

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