This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of Herefordshire . [1]
Herefordshire is a county in the West Midlands of England, governed by Herefordshire Council. It borders Shropshire to the north, Worcestershire to the east, Gloucestershire to the south-east, and the Welsh counties of Monmouthshire and Powys to the west.
- John Scudamore bef. 1544
- Richard Warnecombe bef. 1544–1547
- John Scudamore (died 1571) 1547–1571 [2]
- Sir James Croft bef. 1573 –1574
- Sir John Scudamore 1574–1616
- Sir James Scudamore 1616–1619
- Sir John Scudamore 1619–1622
- John Scudamore, 1st Viscount Scudamore 1622–1646, 1660–1671
- Edward Harley Mar–July 1660
- Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort 1671–1689
- Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield 1689–1694
- Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby 1696–1721
Sir James Croft PC was an English politician, who was Lord Deputy of Ireland, and MP for Herefordshire in the Parliament of England.
John Scudamore, was the eldest son of William Scudamore (d.1560) and Ursula Pakington (d.1558), the daughter of Sir John Pakington, but due to his father's early death was a ward of Sir James Croft of Croft Castle, Herefordshire, whose daughter Eleanor Croft (d.1569) he had married by 1563.
John Scudamore, 1st Viscount Scudamore was an English diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1629. In 1628 he was created Viscount Scudamore in the Irish peerage.
For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire.
This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire. Before the English Civil War, the lieutenancy of Herefordshire was always held by the Lord Lieutenant of Wales, but after the Restoration, its lieutenants were appointed separately. Since 1714, all the Lord Lieutenants have also been Custos Rotulorum of Herefordshire.