List of lord-lieutenants in the United Kingdom

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Lord-lieutenants are appointed in England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

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Lord-lieutenants

Lieutenancy areaNameDate
Aberdeenshire Sandy Manson20 March 2020
Angus Patricia Sawers25 August 2019
Antrim David McCorkell 29 June 2019
Argyll and Bute Jane MacLeod14 July 2020 [1]
Armagh The Earl of Caledon 15 May 1989
Ayrshire and Arran Iona McDonald 26 October 2017
Banffshire Andrew Simpson4 August 2019
Bedfordshire Susan Lousanda6 September 2022
Belfast Dame Fionnuala Jay-O'Boyle 6 July 2014
Berkshire Andrew Try24 October 2023
Berwickshire Jeanna Swan25 April 2014
Bristol Lois Golding 24 April 2017
Buckinghamshire The Countess Howe [2] 26 June 2020
Caithness The Viscount Thurso 17 August 2017
Cambridgeshire Julie Spence 4 April 2017
Cheshire Lady Redmond25 August 2021 [3]
Clackmannanshire Lieutenant Colonel Johnny Stewart5 June 2014
Clwyd Harry Fetherstonhaugh17 January 2013
Cornwall Colonel Sir Edward Bolitho 19 September 2011
Cumbria Alexander Scott6 July 2023 [4]
Derbyshire Elizabeth FothergillJuly 2020
Devon David Fursdon 17 April 2015 [5]
Dorset Michael Dooley 5 September 2024 [6]
Down Gawn Rowan Hamilton26 September 2021
Dumfries Lady MacGregor 10 February 2016
Dunbartonshire Jill Young12 August 2020
Dundee [7] Bill Campbell20 May 2022
Durham Susan Snowdon 8 March 2013
Dyfed Sara Edwards 7 February 2016
East Lothian Roderick Uruquhart15 March 2021 [8]
East Riding of Yorkshire James Dick25 June 2019
East Sussex Andrew Blackman18 August 2021
Edinburgh [9] Robert Aldridge26 May 2022
Essex Jennifer Tolhurst 5 August 2017
Fermanagh The Viscount Brookeborough 9 July 2012
Fife Robert Balfour22 January 2015
Glasgow [10] Jacqueline McLaren19 May 2022
Gloucestershire Edward Gillespie28 October 2018
Greater London Sir Ken Olisa 29 May 2015
Greater Manchester Diane Hawkins4 July 2022
Gwent Brigadier Robert Aitken24 March 2016
Gwynedd Edmund Seymour Bailey16 April 2014
Hampshire Nigel Atkinson11 September 2014
Herefordshire Edward Harley15 April 2020
Hertfordshire Robert Voss 4 August 2017
Inverness James Wotherspoon4 August 2021
Isle of Wight Susan Sheldon25 March 2019
Kent Lady Annabel Colgrain21 April 2020
Kincardineshire Alastair Macphie1 October 2020
Kirkcudbright Lord Sinclair29 July 2021
Lanarkshire Lady Haughey 13 November 2017
Lancashire Amanda Parker [11] 2 August 2023
Leicestershire Mike Kapur 14 June 2018
Lincolnshire Toby Dennis23 February 2015
City of London [12] Sir Nicholas Lyons 11 November 2022
City of Londonderry Ian Crowe12 January 2023
County Londonderry Alison Millar12 June 2018
Merseyside Mark Blundell13 September 2017
Mid Glamorgan Peter Vaughan 17 April 2019
Midlothian Lieutenant Colonel Richard Callander3 April 2020
Moray Major General Seymour Monro 29 January 2020
Nairn George Asher19 January 2018
Norfolk Lady Dannatt 28 May 2019
Northamptonshire James Saunders Watson30 March 2020
Northumberland Caroline Pryer 1 May 2024
North Yorkshire Johanna Ropner 6 November 2018
Nottinghamshire [13] Sir John Peace 21 July 2012
Orkney Elaine Grieve29 January 2020
Oxfordshire Marjorie Glasgow1 October 2021
Perth and Kinross Gordon Leckie23 July 2019
Powys Tia Jones10 September 2018
Renfrewshire Colonel Peter McCarthy13 March 2019
Ross and Cromarty Joanie Whiteford29 May 2019
Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensbury 28 December 2016
Rutland Sarah Furness3 April 2018
Shropshire Anna Turner3 January 2019
Shetland Lindsay William Tulloch3 April 2024
Somerset Mohammed Saddiq 29 October 2022
South Glamorgan Morfudd Meredith5 July 2016
South Yorkshire Dame Hilary Chapman November 2021
Staffordshire Elizabeth Barnes15 July 2025 [14]
Stirling and Falkirk Colonel Charles Wallace24 February 2025
Suffolk The Dowager Countess of Euston 13 December 2014
Surrey Michael More-Molyneux23 August 2015 [15]
Sutherland Major General Patrick Marriott1 August 2022
Tweeddale Lady of Traquair 20 May 2014
Tyne and Wear Lucy Winskell 21 February 2022
Tyrone Robert Lowry Scott 5 July 2009
Warwickshire Timothy Cox2 April 2013
Western Isles Iain Macaulay8 March 2022
West Glamorgan Roberta Fleet16 March 2020 [16]
West Lothian Moira Niven20 September 2017
West Midlands Dr Derrick Anderson6 August 2024 [17]
West Sussex Lady Emma Barnard23 May 2022
West Yorkshire Edmund Anderson3 September 2018
Wigtown Aileen Brewis20 February 2020
Wiltshire Sarah Troughton February 2012
Worcestershire Beatrice Grant17 March 2023

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ "Lord-Lieutenant for Argyll and Bute: 14 July 2020". gov.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  2. ↑ "Lord-Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire: 26 June 2020". gov.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  3. ↑ "Her Majesty's Lord- Lieutenant of Cheshire". The Cheshire Lieutenancy. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  4. ↑ "No. 64111". The London Gazette . 11 July 2023. p. 13702.
  5. ↑ "Lord-Lieutenant for Devon: David Fursdon". gov.uk.
  6. ↑ "New Lord-Lieutenant of Dorset appointed". Bournemouth Echo. 17 September 2024. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ "Appointment of Her Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant for East Lothian: 1 February 2021". GOV.UK. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  9. ↑ The Lord Provost of Edinburgh is ex officio the Lord-Lieutenant of Edinburgh.
  10. ↑ The Lord Provost of the City of Glasgow, by virtue of office, is Lord Lieutenant of the County of the City of Glasgow.
  11. ↑ "Appointment of Lord-Lieutenant of Lancashire – GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. 4 April 2023.
  12. ↑ 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.
  13. ↑ "Peace, John: Brief Biography". Reuters. Retrieved 30 October 2012.
  14. ↑ "New Lord-Lieutenant of Staffordshire announced" Staffordshire County Council, 15 April 2025. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
  15. ↑ "Lord-Lieutenant for Surrey: Michael More-Molyneux".
  16. ↑ "H.M. Lord Lieutenant of West Glamorgan". H.M. Lord Lieutenant of West Glamorgan. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
  17. ↑ "No. 64483". The London Gazette . 9 August 2024. p. 15390.
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