Custos Rotulorum of Gloucestershire
Encyclopedia
This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum
of Gloucestershire
.
For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire
.
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 Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean....
.
- Sir Edmund Tame bef. 1544–1544
- Sir Anthony KingstonAnthony KingstonSir Anthony Kingston was an English royal official, holder of various positions under several Tudor monarchs.-Life:He was son of Sir William Kingston of Blackfriars, London...
1544?–1556 - Sir Nicholas ArnoldNicholas Arnold-Life:He was the son of John Arnold, Lord of the manor of Highnam and Over, and his wife Isabel Hawkins.In 1530 he entered the service of Thomas Cromwell and assisted him in the Dissolution of the Monasteries...
bef. 1558–1580 - Sir Thomas Throckmorton bef. 1584 – aft. 1596
- Sir John Poyntz 1602 – aft. 1608
- Grey Brydges, 5th Baron ChandosGrey Brydges, 5th Baron ChandosGrey Brydges, 5th Baron Chandos was an English nobleman and courtier.-Early life:He was the only son of William Brydges, 4th Baron Chandos, who died on 18 November 1602, and Mary Hopton, who was daughter of Sir Owen Hopton. He was M.P. for Cricklade, in 1597.Brydges and his family were friendly...
bef. 1621–1621 - Sir John Bridgeman 1621–1638
- Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron CoventryThomas Coventry, 1st Baron CoventryThomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry was a prominent English lawyer, politician and judge during the early 17th century.-Education and early legal career:...
1638–1640 - vacant?
- Interregnum
- George Berkeley, 1st Earl of BerkeleyGeorge Berkeley, 1st Earl of BerkeleyGeorge Berkeley, 1st Earl of Berkeley PC FRS was an English merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1654 until 1658 when he succeeded to the peerage.-Life:...
1660–1689 - Charles Berkeley, 2nd Earl of BerkeleyCharles Berkeley, 2nd Earl of BerkeleyCharles Berkeley, 2nd Earl of Berkeley PC KB FRS , was a British nobleman and diplomat, known as Sir Charles Berkeley from 1661 to 1679 and styled Viscount Dursley from 1679 to 1698....
1689–1710
For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire
Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire
This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire. Since 1694, all the Lord Lieutenants have also been Custos Rotulorum of Gloucestershire.*Edmund Brydges, 2nd Baron Chandos 1559–?...
.