Custos Rotulorum of Dorset
Encyclopedia
This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum
of Dorset
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For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Dorset
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Custos rotulorum
Custos rotulorum is the keeper of an English county's records and, by virtue of that office, the highest civil officer in the county...
of Dorset
Dorset
Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester which is situated in the south. The Hampshire towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch joined the county with the reorganisation of local government in 1974...
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- Sir Thomas Arundell bef. 1547–1552
- Thomas Howard, 1st Viscount Howard of BindonThomas Howard, 1st Viscount Howard of BindonThomas Howard, 1st Viscount Howard of Bindon , was an English peer and politician. He was the youngest son of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk and Lady Elizabeth Stafford. He served as Custos Rotulorum of Dorset and Vice-Admiral of Dorset. In 1559 he was raised to the peerage as Viscount Howard...
bef. 1558–1582 - Sir Matthew Arundell bef. 1584–1598
- Sir Walter Raleigh 1599–1603?
- Thomas Howard, 3rd Viscount Howard of BindonThomas Howard, 3rd Viscount Howard of BindonThomas Howard, 3rd Viscount Howard of Bindon was an English peer and politician. He was a Knight of the Garter, Lord Lieutenant of Dorset 25 April 1601 – 1 March 1611, Custos Rotulorum of Dorset bef. 1605–1611, and Vice-Admiral of Dorset 1603–1611. He was the son of Thomas Howard, 1st Viscount...
bef. 1605–1611 - Theophilus Howard, Lord Howard de WaldenTheophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of SuffolkTheophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, KG was an English nobleman and politician.Born at the family estate of Saffron Walden, he was the son of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk, by his second wife Catherine Knyvet of Charlton, and succeeded his father in 1626.Sir Theophilus Howard was named in...
bef. 1621–1640 - Francis Cottington, 1st Baron Cottington 1640–1652
- Denzil Holles, 1st Baron HollesDenzil Holles, 1st Baron HollesDenzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles PC was an English statesman and writer, best known as one of the five members of parliament whom King Charles I of England attempted to arrest in 1642.-Early life:...
1641–1680 jointly with - John Digby, 1st Earl of BristolJohn Digby, 1st Earl of BristolJohn Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol , was an English diplomat and a moderate royalist during the English Civil War.- Early career :...
1642–1653 - John Digby, 3rd Earl of BristolJohn Digby, 3rd Earl of BristolJohn Digby, 3rd Earl of Bristol was a British peer and Member of Parliament, styled Lord Digby from 1653 to 1677....
1680–1698
For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Dorset
Lord Lieutenant of Dorset
The Office of the Lord Lieutenant was created during the reign of Henry VIII, taking over the military duties of the Sheriff and control of the military forces of the Crown. From 1569, there was provision for the appointment of Deputies, and in 1662 the Lord-Lieutenant was given entire control of...
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