Custos Rotulorum of Northumberland
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This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum
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 Northumberland
Northumberland
Northumberland is the northernmost ceremonial county and a unitary district in North East England. For Eurostat purposes Northumberland is a NUTS 3 region and is one of three boroughs or unitary districts that comprise the "Northumberland and Tyne and Wear" NUTS 2 region...

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  • Robert Horsley bef. 1547–?
  • Sir Robert Brandling
    Brandling of Newcastle
    The Brandlings of Newcastle were a wealthy family of merchants and land and coal owners in Newcastle upon Tyne and Northumberland.-Early Brandlings:...

     bef. 1558–1568
  • Sir John Forster
    Sir John Forster
    Sir John Forster was an English military commander and Warden of the Middle Marches.-Life:Born about 1501, he was son of Sir Thomas Forster of Etherston, Northumberland, marshal of Berwick, and his wife Dorothy, daughter of Robert Ogle, 4th Baron Ogle...

     bef. 1573 – aft. 1594
  • Ralph Eure, 4th Baron Eure 1596–1598
  • Sir Robert Carey
    Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth
    Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth was an English nobleman and courtier. He was the youngest son of Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon and Anne Morgan, daughter of Sir Thomas Morgan and Anne Whitney.As a young man he accompanied several diplomatic missions abroad and took part in military expeditions...

     1598 – bef. 1605
  • Edward Talbot, 8th Earl of Shrewsbury
    Edward Talbot, 8th Earl of Shrewsbury
    Edward Talbot, 8th Earl of Shrewsbury and 8th Earl of Waterford , was the younger brother and nearest male heir of Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury, whom he succeeded as Earl of Shrewsbury and Lord High Steward of Ireland in 1616.He was born in Sheffield, the son of George Talbot, 6th Earl of...

     bef. 1605–1618
  • Sir Ralph Delaval
    Ralph Delaval
    Admiral Sir Ralph Delaval was an English naval admiral.He was a member of a junior branch of the Delaval family of Seaton Delaval, Northumberland...

     1618–1628
  • William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Newcastle
    William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle
    William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne KG KB PC was an English polymath and aristocrat, having been a poet, equestrian, playwright, swordsman, politician, architect, diplomat and soldier...

     1628–1632
  • Sir William Widdrington
    William Widdrington, 1st Baron Widdrington
    Sir William Widdrington , of Widdrington, Northumberland, was created 1st Baron Widdrington of Blankney in the Peerage of England on 2 November 1643.He was the son and heir of Sir Henry Widdrington of Widdrington Sir William Widdrington (1610 – 3 September 1651), of Widdrington,...

     1632–1646
  • Interregnum
  • William Widdrington, 2nd Baron Widdrington 1660–1675
  • Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle
    Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle
    Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, KG, PC , styled Viscount Mansfield until 1676, was the only son of the William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and his first wife, Elizabeth Basset. His maternal grandparents were William Basset and Judith Austen, daughter of Thomas...

     1675–1688
  • Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough
    Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough
    Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough was an English soldier and statesman best known for his role in the Glorious Revolution.-Origins:...

     1689–1721
  • Richard Lumley, 2nd Earl of Scarbrough
    Richard Lumley, 2nd Earl of Scarbrough
    Richard Lumley, 2nd Earl of Scarbrough, KG, PC was a British, Whig politician, known as Lord Lumley from 1710-21....

     1722–1740
  • Charles Bennet, 2nd Earl of Tankerville
    Charles Bennet, 2nd Earl of Tankerville
    Charles Bennet, 2nd Earl of Tankerville KT , styled Lord Ossulston between 1714 and 1722, was a British peer and politician.-Background:...

     1740–1753
  • Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland
    Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland
    Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, KG, PC was an Engish peer, landowner and art patron.He was born Hugh Smithson, the son of Langdale Smithson and grandson of Sir Hugh Smithson, 3rd Baronet from whom he inherited the baronetcy in 1733...

     1753–1786
  • Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland
    Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland
    Lieutenant-General Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland, FRS was an officer in the British army and later a British peer...

     1786–1800
  • William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
    William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
    William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, KG, PC was a British Whig and Tory statesman, Chancellor of the University of Oxford and Prime Minister. He was known before 1762 by the courtesy title Marquess of Titchfield. He held a title of every degree of British nobility—Duke,...

     1800–1802
  • Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland
    Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland
    Lieutenant-General Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland, FRS was an officer in the British army and later a British peer...

     1802–1817

For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland
Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland
This is a list of people who have served as Lord-Lieutenant of Northumberland. Since 1802, all Lords Lieutenant have also been Custos Rotulorum of Northumberland.*Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland*Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland ?–1489...

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