List of Chancellors of Durham

Not to be confused with the Chancellor of the University of Durham

This is an incomplete list of those who have served as Chancellor of County Durham:

• 1655–?: Thomas Widdrington

• 1787–1788: John Scott
• 1788–1791: Sir John Mitford
• 1791–1798: Sir Thomas Manners-Sutton
• 1798–1818: Samuel Romilly
• 1818–1835: Robert Hopper Williamson
• 1835–1846: Sir Charles Wetherell
• 1847–1851: Richard Torin Kindersley
• 1851–1871: Christopher Temple^[1]
• 1871–1887: James Fleming^[2]
• 1887–1892: Gainsford Bruce^[3]
• 1892–1905: Thomas Milvain^[4]
• 1905–1915: John Scott Fox^[5]
• 1915–1930: Edward Tindal Atkinson
• 1930–1936: Sir Henry Arthur Colefax^[6]
• 1936–1950: Charles Paley Scott^[7]
• 1950–1958: John Charlesworth^[8]
• 1958–1959: James Neville Gray^[9]
• 1959–1960: Arthur Geoffrey Neale Cross^[10]
• 1960–1969: Henry Edwin Salt^[11]
• 1969–1971: Hugh Elvet Francis^[12]

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