List of the Lord Lieutenants of the United Kingdom

This is a list of current Lord Lieutenants in England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

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Lord Lieutenants

Lieutenancy area Name Since
Aberdeen[1] Peter James Stephen 16 May 2007
Aberdeenshire James Ingleby 13 July 2010
Angus Georgiana Osborne 24 July 2001
Antrim Joan Christie 1 September 2008
Argyll and Bute Kenneth MacKinnon 2002
Armagh Nicholas Alexander, 7th Earl of Caledon 15 May 1989
Ayrshire and Arran John Duncan 2006
Banffshire Clare Nancy Russell 19 February 2003
Bedfordshire Sir Samuel Charles Whitbread 28 February 1991
Belfast Dame Mary Peters 9 August 2009
Berkshire Mary Bayliss 19 April 2008
Berwickshire Maj. Alexander Richard Trotter 20 September 2000
Bristol Mary Prior 17 September 2007
Buckinghamshire Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, 8th Baronet 2006
Caithness Margaret Annie Geddes Dunnett 12 May 2004
Cambridgeshire Hugh Duberly 20 August 2003
Cheshire Thomas David Briggs 7 March 2010
Clackmannanshire The Rt. Hon. George Reid 23 May 2011
Clwyd Trefor Jones 5 June 2001
Cornwall Edward Bolitho 19 September 2011
Cumbria Sir James Anthony Cropper KCVO 18 July 1994
Derbyshire William Tucker 2009
Devon Eric Dancer 16 September 1998
Dorset Valerie Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers 2006
Down David Lindsay 25 August 2009
Dumfries Jean Douglas Tulloch 19 August 2006
Dunbartonshire Michael Gregory October 2008
Dundee[2] John Letford 2003
Durham Sir Paul Nicholson 30 January 1997
Dyfed The Hon. Robin William Lewis 17 September 2007
East Lothian Sir Garth Morrison 30 July 2001
East Riding of Yorkshire The Hon. Mrs Susan Cunliffe-Lister 19 December 2005
East Sussex Peter Field 19 August 2008
Edinburgh[3] George Grubb 2007
Essex John Patrick Lionel Petre, 18th Baron Petre 2002
Fermanagh Henry Crichton, 6th Earl Erne 20 August 1986
Fife Margaret Dean 13 September 1999
Glasgow[4] Bob Winter 2007
Gloucestershire Dame Janet Trotter 25 October 2010
Greater London Sir David Brewer 27 April 2008
Greater Manchester Warren Smith 11 July 2007
Gwent Simon Boyle 22 October 2001
Gwynedd Huw Morgan Daniel 1 May 2006
Hampshire Dame Mary Fagan 28 March 1994
Herefordshire Susan Bligh, Countess of Darnley 24 October 2008
Hertfordshire Dione Grimston, Countess of Verulam 27 July 2007
Inverness Donald Angus Cameron, 27th Lochiel 19 November 2002
Isle of Wight Major-General Martin Spencer White 2006
Kent Philip Sidney, 2nd Viscount De L’Isle 1 September 2011
Kincardineshire Carol Kinghorn 11 September 2007
Kirkcudbright Sir Malcolm Ross 2 March 2006
Lanarkshire Mushtaq Ahmad 11 November 2010
Lancashire Charles Kay-Shuttleworth, 5th Baron Shuttleworth KCVO 13 January 1997
Leicestershire Jennifer Gretton, Baroness Gretton 24 February 2003
Lincolnshire Anthony Worth 30 August 2008
City of London[5] Michael Bear 12 November 2010
City of Londonderry Donal Keegan 2 August 2002
County Londonderry Denis Desmond 14 June 2000
Merseyside Dame Lorna Muirhead DBE 2006
Mid Glamorgan Kathrin Elizabeth Thomas 23 December 2003
Midlothian Patrick Prenter 23 August 2003
Moray Lt-Col. Grenville Johnston 20 August 2005
Nairn Ewen John Brodie, 16th of Lethen 9 November 1999
Norfolk Richard Jewson 19 September 2004
Northamptonshire Juliet Townsend 18 November 1998
Northumberland Jane Percy, Duchess of Northumberland 12 May 2009
North Yorkshire James Dugdale, 2nd Baron Crathorne 1999
Nottinghamshire Sir Andrew Buchanan 11 February 1991
Orkney Anthony Trickett 12 March 2007
Perth and Kinross Brig Melville Stewart Jameson 14 August 2006
Powys The Hon. Mrs Elizabeth Shân Legge-Bourke 1998
Oxfordshire Timothy Stevenson 1 September 2008
Renfrewshire Guy Clark 2 June 2007
Ross and Cromarty Janet Bowen 2 June 2007
Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale The Hon. Gerald Maitland-Carew 28 March 2007
Rutland Laurence Howard 14 July 2003
Shropshire Algernon Eustace Heber-Percy 11 March 1996
Shetland John Hamilton Scott 21 April 1994
Somerset Elizabeth Gass, Lady Gass 12 February 1999
South Glamorgan Peter Beck 14 June 2008
South Yorkshire David Moody 2004
Staffordshire Sir James Appleton Hawley 6 September 1993
Stirling and Falkirk Marjory McLachlan 28 November 2005
Suffolk Timothy Tollemache, 5th Baron Tollemache 30 June 2003
Surrey Dame Sarah Goad 29 October 1997
Sutherland Dr. Monica Main 20 August 2005
Tweeddale Capt. (John) David Bingham Younger 28 June 1994
Tyne and Wear Nigel Sherlock 2000
Tyrone Robert Lowry Scott 5 July 2009
Warwickshire Martin Dunne 17 January 1997
Western Isles Alexander Matheson 27 April 2001
West Glamorgan Byron Lewis June 2008
West Lothian Isobel Gunning Brydie 11 June 2002
West Midlands Paul Sabapathy 2007
West Sussex Susan Pyper 2008
West Yorkshire Dr Ingrid Roscoe 2004
Wigtown Marion Teresa Brewis 14 August 2006
Wiltshire John Bush 10 November 2004
Worcestershire Michael Brinton 27 September 2001

Notes

  1. ^ The Lord Provost of Aberdeen, by virtue of office, is also the Lord-Lieutenant of Aberdeen.
  2. ^ The Lord Provost of Dundee is the leader of the City of Dundee local authority in Scotland. They are elected by the city council and serve not only as the chair of that body, but as a figurehead and Lord Lieutenant for the city.
  3. ^ The Lord Provost of Edinburgh is ex officio the Lord-Lieutenant of Edinburgh.
  4. ^ The Lord Provost of the City of Glasgow, by virtue of office, is Lord Lieutenant of the County of the City of Glasgow.
  5. ^ The City of London is unique in that the post of Lord-Lieutenant is held in commission. The Lord Mayor of the City of London is the head of the Commission of Lieutenancy.

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