Lord Lieutenant of Somerset

This is an incomplete list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Somerset . Since 1714, all Lord Lieutenants have also been Custos Rotulorum of Somerset.

Lord Lieutenants of Somerset

• John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford 1552–1555
• William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke 12 May 1559 – 17 March 1570
• vacant
• Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke 3 July 1585 – 19 January 1601
• Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford 24 April 1601 – 6 April 1621
• William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke 14 April 1621 – 10 April 1630
• Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke 12 August 1630 – 30 July 1640 jointly with
• William Seymour, 1st Marquess of Hertford 26 March 1639 – 1642 jointly with
• Philip Herbert, Lord Herbert 30 July 1640 – 1642
• William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford 25 March 1642 – 23 August 1643 (Parliamentarian)
• Interregnum
• William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset 13 August 1660 – 24 October 1660
• James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde 22 December 1660 – 22 August 1672
• John Seymour, 4th Duke of Somerset 22 August 1672 – 29 April 1675
• Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Winchilsea 4 June 1675 – 16 July 1683
• Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset 16 July 1683 – 11 August 1687
• Henry Waldegrave, 1st Baron Waldegrave 11 August 1687 – 6 November 1688
• Ralph Stawell, 1st Baron Stawell 6 November 1688 – 1689 ^{[1] [2]}
• Maurice Berkeley, 3rd Viscount Fitzhardinge 13 April 1689 – 13 June 1690
• Thomas Osborne, 1st Marquess of Carmarthen 24 June 1690 – 3 February 1691 jointly with
• William Cavendish, 4th Earl of Devonshire 24 June 1690 – 3 February 1691 and
• Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset 24 June 1690 – 3 February 1691
• James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde 3 February 1691 – 3 December 1714
• Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery 3 December 1714 – 1 October 1715
• George Dodington 1 October 1715 – 28 March 1720
• George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe 20 June 1720 – 17 February 1744
• John Poulett, 2nd Earl Poulett 17 February 1744 – 5 November 1764
• Percy Wyndham-O'Brien, 1st Earl of Thomond 27 November 1764 – 16 March 1774
• Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford 16 March 1774 – 5 August 1792
• John Poulett, 4th Earl Poulett 15 November 1792 – 14 January 1819
• Thomas Thynne, 2nd Marquess of Bath 23 February 1819 – 27 March 1837
• Henry Fox-Strangways, 3rd Earl of Ilchester 28 April 1837 – 1 June 1839
• Edward Portman, 1st Viscount Portman 1 June 1839 – 28 June 1864
• Richard Boyle, 9th Earl of Cork 28 June 1864 – 22 June 1904
• Thomas Thynne, 5th Marquess of Bath 1904 – 9 June 1946
• Sir James Somerville 1946 – 19 March 1949
• William Jolliffe, 4th Baron Hylton 10 August 1949 – 14 November 1967
• Cecil Townley Mitford-Slade 17 April 1968 – 1978
• Sir Walter Luttrell 3 May 1978 – 10 November 1994 ^[3]
• Sir John Wills, 4th Baronet 10 November 1994 – 26 August 1998 ^[4]
• Elizabeth Gass, Lady Gass 12 February 1999 – 2 March 2015 ^[5]
• Anne Maw 2 March 2015 – 29 October 2022 ^[6]
• Mohammed Saddiq 29 October 2022 – present ^[7]

References

• J.C. Sainty (1970). "Lieutenancies of Counties, 1585–1642". Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research (Special Supplement No. 8): 31.
• J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660–1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.

1. Dunning, Robert (1983). A History of Somerset. Chichester: Phillimore & Co. pp. 108–109. ISBN   0-85033-461-6.
2. Sir George Floyd Duckett, Penal laws and Test act: questions touching their repeal propounded in 1687–8 by James II (Printed by T. Wilson, 1882), pp. 389, 415
3. London Gazette, issue no.47525, 5 May 1978
4. London Gazette, issue no.53849, 15 November 1994
5. London Gazette, issue no.55408, 19 February 1999
6. "Anne Maw appointed as Lord-Lieutenant for Somerset". Somerset County Gazette. 26 February 2015. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
7. "Appointment of Lord-Lieutenant of Somerset: 1 August 2022". GOV.UK.