Lord Lieutenant of Westmorland

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is a list of people who have served as Lord-Lieutenant of Westmorland. The office was abolished on 31 March 1974 and replaced by the Lord Lieutenant of Cumbria. From 1751 to 1974, all Lord Lieutenants were also Custos Rotulorum of Westmorland.

• Henry Clifford, 2nd Earl of Cumberland 1553–1559
• Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon 1586–1595
• vacant?
• George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland 1603–1605
• vacant?
• Francis Clifford, 4th Earl of Cumberland 1607–1639 jointly with
• George Home, 1st Earl of Dunbar 1607–1611 and
• Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk 1607–1639 and
• Henry Clifford, 5th Earl of Cumberland 1607–1642 and
• Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel 1632–1639 and
• Henry Howard, Lord Maltravers 1632–1639
• Francis Clifford, 4th Earl of Cumberland 1639–1641
• Interregnum
• Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle 1660–1685?
• Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet 1685–1687
• Richard Graham, 1st Viscount Preston 1687–1689
• John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale 1689–1694
• Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle 1694–1738
• Henry Lowther, 3rd Viscount Lonsdale 1738–1751
• Sir William Lowther, 3rd Baronet 1751–1756
• Sir John Pennington, 3rd Baronet 1756–1759?
• James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale 1759–1802
• William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale 1802–1844?
• William Lowther, 2nd Earl of Lonsdale 1844–1868
• Henry Lowther, 3rd Earl of Lonsdale 1868–1876
• Sir Richard Musgrave, 11th Baronet 1878–1881
• Henry Tufton, 1st Baron Hothfield 1881–1917?
• Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale 1917–1944
• James Winstanley Cropper 1944–1956
• Henry Hornyold-Strickland 1957–1965
• Lieutenant-Commander Paul Norman Wilson ?–1974

[edit] References

• J.C. Sainty (1970). "Lieutenancies of Counties, 1585–1642". Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research (Special Supplement No. 8). 
• This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.