Lord-lieutenants are appointed in England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
Lieutenancy area | Name | Date |
---|---|---|
Aberdeenshire | Sandy Manson | 20 March 2020 |
Angus | Patricia Ann Sawers | 25 August 2019 |
Antrim | David McCorkell [1] | 29 June 2019 |
Argyll and Bute | Jane Margaret MacLeod | 14 July 2020 [2] |
Armagh | Nicholas Alexander, 7th Earl of Caledon | 15 May 1989 |
Ayrshire and Arran | Iona McDonald | 26 October 2017 |
Banffshire | Andrew Simpson | 4 August 2019 |
Bedfordshire | Susan Lousanda | 6 September 2022 |
Belfast | Dame Fionnuala Jay-O'Boyle | 2014 |
Berkshire | Andrew Try | 24 October 2023 |
Berwickshire | Jeanna Swan | 25 April 2014 |
Bristol | Lois Patricia (Peaches) Golding | 24 April 2017 |
Buckinghamshire | Elizabeth Curzon, Countess Howe [3] | 26 June 2020 |
Caithness | John Thurso, Viscount Thurso | 17 August 2017 |
Cambridgeshire | Julie Spence [4] | 4 April 2017 |
Cheshire | Alexis (Lady) Redmond | 25 August 2021 [5] |
Clackmannanshire | Lieutenant Colonel Johnny Stewart | 5 June 2014 |
Clwyd | Harry Fetherstonhaugh | 17 January 2013 |
Cornwall | Colonel Edward Bolitho | 19 September 2011 |
Cumbria | (Francis) Alexander Scott | 6 July 2023 [6] |
Derbyshire | Elizabeth Fothergill | July 2020 |
Devon | David Fursdon | 17 April 2015 [7] |
Dorset | Angus Campbell | 2014 |
Down | Gawn Rowan Hamilton | 26 September 2021 |
Dumfries | Fiona Armstrong, Lady MacGregor | 2016 |
Dunbartonshire | Jill Williamina Young | 12 August 2020 |
Dundee [8] | Bill Campbell | 2022 |
Durham | Susan Snowdon | 8 March 2013 |
Dyfed | Sara Edwards | 7 February 2016 |
East Lothian | Roderick Urquhart | 15 March 2021 [9] |
East Riding of Yorkshire | James Dick | 25 June 2019 |
East Sussex | Andrew Blackman | 18 August 2021 |
Edinburgh [10] | Robert Aldridge, Lord Provost of Edinburgh | 2022 |
Essex | Jennifer Tolhurst | 5 August 2017 |
Fermanagh | Alan Brooke, 3rd Viscount Brookeborough | 9 July 2012 |
Fife | Robert William Balfour | 22 January 2015 |
Glasgow [11] | Jacqueline McLaren | 19 May 2022 |
Gloucestershire | Edward Gillespie | 28 October 2018 |
Greater London | Sir Ken Olisa | 29 May 2015 |
Greater Manchester | Sir Warren James Smith | 11 July 2007 |
Gwent | Brigadier Robert Aitken | 24 March 2016 |
Gwynedd | Edmund Seymour Bailey | 16 April 2014 |
Hampshire | Nigel Atkinson | September 2014 |
Herefordshire | Edward Harley | 15 April 2020 |
Hertfordshire | Robert Voss [12] | 4 August 2017 |
Inverness | James Wotherspoon | 4 August 2021 |
Isle of Wight | Susan Sheldon | 25 March 2019 |
Kent | Lady Annabel Colgrain | 21 April 2020 |
Kincardineshire | Alastair Macphie | 1 October 2020 |
Kirkcudbright | Matthew Murray Kennedy St Clair, 18th Lord Sinclair | 29 July 2021 |
Lanarkshire | Lady Haughey | 13 November 2017 |
Lancashire | Amanda Parker [13] | 2 August 2023 |
Leicestershire | Mike Kapur | 14 June 2018 |
Lincolnshire | Toby Dennis | 23 February 2015 |
City of London [14] | Nicholas Lyons | 11 November 2022 |
City of Londonderry | Ian Crowe | 12 January 2023 |
County Londonderry | Alison Millar | 12 June 2018 |
Merseyside | Mark Blundell | 13 September 2017 |
Mid Glamorgan | Peter Vaughan | 17 April 2019 |
Midlothian | Lt. Col. Richard Callander | 3 April 2020 |
Moray | Major General Seymour Monro | 2020 |
Nairn | George Russell Asher | 19 January 2018 |
Norfolk | Lady Dannatt | 28 May 2019 |
Northamptonshire | James Saunders Watson | 30 March 2020 |
Northumberland | Jane Percy, Duchess of Northumberland | 12 May 2009 |
North Yorkshire | Johanna Ropner [15] | 6 November 2018 |
Nottinghamshire [16] | Sir John Peace | 21 July 2012 |
Orkney | Elaine Grieve | 29 January 2020 |
Oxfordshire | Marjorie Glasgow | 1 October 2021 |
Perth and Kinross | Gordon Kenneth Stephen Leckie | 23 July 2019 |
Powys | Tia C Jones | 10 September 2018 |
Renfrewshire | Colonel Peter McCarthy | 13 March 2019 |
Ross and Cromarty | Joanie Aileen Whiteford | 29 May 2019 |
Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale | Richard Scott, 10th Duke of Buccleuch | 28 December 2016 |
Rutland | Sarah Furness | 3 April 2018 |
Shropshire | Anna Turner | 3 January 2019 |
Shetland | Robert Hunter | December 2011 |
Somerset | Mohammed Saddiq | 29 October 2022 |
South Glamorgan | Morfudd Meredith | 5 July 2016 |
South Yorkshire | Dame Hilary Chapman | November 2021 |
Staffordshire | Ian Dudson [17] | 29 March 2012 |
Stirling and Falkirk | Alan Simpson | 28 February 2017 |
Suffolk | Clare FitzRoy, Countess of Euston [18] | 13 December 2014 |
Surrey | Michael More-Molyneux | 23 August 2015 [19] |
Sutherland | Major General Patrick Marriott CB CBE | 1 August 2022 |
Tweeddale | Prof. Sir Hew Strachan | 20 May 2014 |
Tyne and Wear | Lucy Winskell | 21 February 2022 |
Tyrone | Robert Lowry Scott | 5 July 2009 |
Warwickshire | Timothy Cox | 2 April 2013 |
Western Isles | Iain Macaulay | 8 March 2022 |
West Glamorgan | Roberta Louise Fleet [20] | 16 March 2020 [21] |
West Lothian | Moira Niven | 20 September 2017 |
West Midlands | John Crabtree | 3 January 2017 |
West Sussex | Dame Susan Pyper | 2008 |
West Yorkshire | Edmund Anderson | 3 September 2018 |
Wigtown | Aileen Brewis | 20 February 2020 |
Wiltshire | Sarah Rose Troughton | February 2012 |
Worcestershire | Beatrice Grant | 17 March 2023 |
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