Registrar of the Baronetage

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Registrar of the Baronetage
Incumbent
Ceri King LVO
since 2016
Ministry of Justice
AppointerThe Lord Chancellor [lower-alpha 1]
Inaugural holderSir William Patrick Bruce
Formation1910
DeputyElaine Chilver,
Assistant Registrar of the Baronetage

The Registrar of the Baronetage is responsible for maintaining and updating the Official Roll of the Baronetage. [1]

Contents

History

List of Registrars

Registrar of the Baronetage
#PortraitName
(Birth–Death)
Term of officeDeputyConcurrent office(s)Ref.
1 No image.svg Sir William Patrick Byrne
KCVOCB
(died 1935)
19101913Robert Fröding Reynard
ISO
[2]
2 No image.svg Harry Butler Simpson
CB
(died 1940)
19131925
Percy Thomas Shorey
MBE
3 No image.svg Arthur John Eagleston
CVO
(died 1944)
19251932
4 No image.svg Sir Harry Robert Boyd
KCVOCBE
(died 1940)
19321940 [†]
Frederick James Dadd
KCVOCBE
No image.svg Frederick James Dadd
KCVOCBE
(died 1977)
19401945Assistant Registrar of the Peerage
5 No image.svg Sir Henry Austin Strutt
KCVOCB
(n/a)
19451961
G. R. Mayhew
William Edward Kocher
6 No image.svg Ronald John Gruppy
(died 1967)
16611967 [†]
M. D. Tenten
7 No image.svg N. F. Cairncross
(died 1969)
19671969 [†]
E. B. Cable
8 No image.svg Philip J. Wodfield
(died 1970)
19691970 [†]
9 No image.svg Kenneth P. Witney
(died 1976)
19701976 [†]
R. M. Gaines
Alan Durrant Bennett
MBE
10 No image.svg Ralph F. D. Shuffrey
(n/a)
19761980
11 No image.svg Geoffrey de Deney
(n/a)
19801984
A. Fitzgerald
Charles J. Goldie
12 No image.svg Michael Head
CVO
(n/a)
19841991
Laurence Philip Little
Frederick John Perrin
Ian William Jardine
13 No image.svg Robert M. Morris
(n/a)
19911996
Frances Geraldine Bright
14 No image.svg Carolyn Sinclair
(n/a)
19962001
Sylvia Denise Brown
15 No image.svg Paul Jenkins
(n/a) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_create_an_account%3F
20012003
Steven Henry Johnson
16 No image.svg Andrew McDonald
(n/a)
20032005Registrar of the Peerage
17 No image.svg Ian Denyer
MVO
(n/a)
20062016
  • Head of the Crown Office
  • Deputy Clerk of the Crown in Chancery
  • Registrar of the Peerage
  • Clerk of the Chamber
Grant Ashley Bavister
18Ceri King
(n/a)
2016 Incumbent Elaine Chilver

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References

  1. "No. 28339". The London Gazette . 15 February 1910. pp. 1123–1124.
  2. "List of Registrars of the Baronetage (Freedom of Information Request)" (PDF). WhatDoTheyKnow. 21 March 2021. Retrieved 14 April 2021.