Custos Rotulorum of Somerset
Encyclopedia
This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum
of Somerset
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For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Somerset
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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 Somerset
Somerset
The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...
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- Sir William PortmanWilliam PortmanSir William Portman was an English judge and Chief Justice of the King’s Bench.-Origins and early career:Portman was the son of John Portman, who was buried in the Temple Church on 5 June 1521, by Alice, daughter of William Knoell of Dorset...
bef. 1554–1557 - Sir Hugh PauletHugh PauletSir Hugh Paulet or Poulet was an English military commander and governor of Jersey.-Life:Born after 1500, he was the eldest son of Sir Amias Paulet of Hinton St. George, Somerset, by his second wife. A younger brother, John, born about 1509, became in 1554 the last Roman Catholic dean of Jersey...
bef. 1558–1573 - Sir Amias PauletAmias PauletSir Amias Paulet was an English diplomat, Governor of Jersey, and the gaoler for a period of Mary, Queen of Scots.-Life:...
bef. 1577–1588 - Sir John Popham bef. 1594–1607
- Sir Edward PhelipsEdward PhelipsSir Edward Phelips was an English lawyer and politician, the Speaker of the English House of Commons from 1604 until 1611, and subsequently Master of the Rolls from 1611 until his death in 1614. He was an elected MP from 1584, and in 1588, following a successful career as a lawyer, he commissioned...
1608–1614 - James Ley, 1st Baron LeyJames Ley, 1st Earl of MarlboroughJames Ley, 1st Earl of Marlborough was Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland and then in England; he was an English Member of Parliament and was Lord High Treasurer from 1624 to 1628. On 31 December 1624, James I created him Baron Ley, of Ley in the County of Devon, and on 5 February...
bef. 1621–1625 - Henry Ley, 2nd Earl of MarlboroughHenry Ley, 2nd Earl of MarlboroughHenry Ley, 2nd Earl of Marlborough was an English peer and Member of Parliament.Ley was knighted in 1611 by James I. He represented Devizes from 1620 to 1622 and in 1626, and was knight of the shire for Wiltshire in 1625. In 1628, he entered the House of Lords by a writ of acceleration as Baron Ley...
1625–1636 - John CoventryJohn CoventrySir John Coventry was son of John Coventry , the second son of lord keeper Thomas Coventry.Between 1655 and 1659, he travelled in the continent with his tutor the poet Edward Sherburne...
1636–1646 - Interregnum
- William Seymour, 2nd Duke of SomersetWilliam Seymour, 2nd Duke of SomersetSir William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset, KG was an English nobleman and Royalist commander in the English Civil War....
1660 - Charles Berkeley, 2nd Viscount FitzhardingeCharles Berkeley, 2nd Viscount FitzhardingeCharles Berkeley, 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1621 and 1668....
1660–1668 - Henry Somerset, 3rd Marquess of WorcesterHenry Somerset, 1st Duke of BeaufortHenry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort, KG, PC was an English peer. He was styled Lord Herbert from 1646 until 3 April 1667, when he succeeded his father as 3rd Marquess of Worcester....
1668–1672 - John Seymour, 4th Duke of SomersetJohn Seymour, 4th Duke of SomersetJohn Seymour, 4th Duke of Somerset was an English peer and MP.He was the only surviving son of William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset and Lady Frances Devereux and entered Grays Inn in 1666. He succeeded his nephew as the 4th Duke of Somerset in 1671. He married in 1656 Sarah, daughter and...
1672–1675 - Maurice Berkeley, 3rd Viscount Fitzhardinge 1675–1688
- Henry Waldegrave, 1st Baron WaldegraveHenry Waldegrave, 1st Baron WaldegraveHenry Waldegrave, 1st Baron Waldegrave was an English peer and Jacobite supporter.The son of Sir Charles Waldegrave, 3rd Baronet, Waldegrave inherited his father's title in about 1684. A year earlier, on 29th November, he had married Henrietta FitzJames, an illegitimate daughter of King James II...
1688 - Maurice Berkeley, 3rd Viscount Fitzhardinge 1688–1690
- John Berkeley, 4th Viscount Fitzhardinge 1690–1712
- John Poulett, 1st Earl PoulettJohn Poulett, 1st Earl PoulettJohn Poulett, 1st Earl Poulett KG was the son of John Poulett, 3rd Baron Poulett and his wife Susan Herbert, daughter of Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke....
1713–1714 - Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of OrreryCharles Boyle, 4th Earl of OrreryCharles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery KT PC FRS was an English nobleman, statesman and patron of the sciences....
1714–1721
For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Somerset
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...
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