List of chancellors of Durham

Not to be confused with List of chancellors of Durham University.

This is a 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]

References

1. "No. 21263". The London Gazette . 14 November 1851. p. 2975.
2. "No. 23718". The London Gazette . 21 March 1871. p. 1492.
3. "No. 25734". The London Gazette . 30 August 1887. p. 4695.
4. "No. 26312". The London Gazette . 2 August 1892. p. 4375.
5. "No. 27849". The London Gazette . 31 October 1905. p. 7248.
6. "No. 33623". The London Gazette . 8 July 1930. p. 4268.
7. "No. 34270". The London Gazette . 3 April 1936. p. 2156.
8. "No. 38873". The London Gazette . 28 March 1950. p. 1543.
9. "No. 41388". The London Gazette . 16 May 1958. p. 3090.
10. "No. 41761". The London Gazette . 10 July 1959. p. 4404.
11. "No. 41966". The London Gazette . 26 February 1960. p. 1452.
12. "No. 44824". The London Gazette . 10 April 1969. p. 3747.

1595 Tobias Matthews

Source: Dedication of Barnabe Barnes (c. 1569 - 1609) of his Divine Centurie of Spirituall Sonnets to:

TO THE RIGHT REVERENDE FATHER IN GOD, the Right honourable and my very good Lorde, TOBIE (by the grace of God) Bishop and Counte Palatine of Duresme and Sadberge: Increase of all true zeale, honour & perpetuall consolation of mind and bodye.

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