Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire

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

[edit] List of Lord Lieutenants

Lord Lieutenant Portrait Birth Death
Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon
1586–1595		 Henry Hastings 1536
Ashby-de-la-Zouch[1]
son of Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon and Katherine Pole		 14 December 1595
York
aged 59
Thomas Cecil, 2nd Baron Burghley
1599–1603		 Thomas Cecil 5 May 1542
Cambridge
son of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley and Mary Cheke		 8 February 1623
London
aged 81
Edmund Sheffield, 3rd Baron Sheffield
1603–1619		 Edmund Sheffield 7 December 1565
Oxford
son of John Sheffield, 2nd Baron Sheffield of Butterwick and Douglas Howard		 20 October 1646
aged 83
Emanuel Scrope, 1st Earl of Sunderland
1619–1628		 Emanuel Scrope 1 August 1584
Hunsdon
son of Thomas Scrope, 10th Baron Scrope of Bolton and Philadelphia Carey		 30 May 1630
aged 46
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford
1628–1641		 Thomas Wentworth 13 April 1593
London
son of William Wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse and Anne Atkins		 12 May 1641
Tower Hill
aged 48
Thomas Savile, 1st Viscount Savile
1641		 Thomas Savile 14 September 1591 1658
aged 67
Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex
1641–1642		 Robert Devereux 11 January 1591
son of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex and Frances Walsingham		 14 September 1646
aged 55

From 1642 until 1660 the position was vacant, however after the Restoration, a separate lieutenant was appointed for each of the three ridings; see Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire, Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire and Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire.

[edit] References

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