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 1711–1714
• 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 6th 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). 

1. ^ London Gazette, issue no.27984,January 8, 1907
2. ^ London Gazette, issue no.52985, July 8, 1992

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