Custos Rotulorum of Warwickshire
Encyclopedia
This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum
of Warwickshire
.
For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire
.
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 Warwickshire
Warwickshire
Warwickshire is a landlocked non-metropolitan county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, although the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is famous for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare...
.
- Sir George ThrockmortonGeorge ThrockmortonSir George Throckmorton of Coughton Court was an English politician and a member of Parliament during the reign of Henry VIII...
bef. 1544–1552 - Sir Ambrose CaveAmbrose Cave-Life:He was the son of Richard Cave and Margaret Saxby of Stanford, Northamptonshire and was educated at Cambridge University. He was knighted by 1525....
bef. 1558–1568 - Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of LeicesterRobert Dudley, 1st Earl of LeicesterRobert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, KG was an English nobleman and the favourite and close friend of Elizabeth I from her first year on the throne until his death...
bef. 1573–1588 - Sir Fulke GrevilleFulke Greville, 1st Baron BrookeFulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, de jure 13th Baron Latimer and 5th Baron Willoughby de Broke , known before 1621 as Sir Fulke Greville, was an Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and statesman....
bef. 1594 – aft. 1596 - Sir Thomas Leigh bef. 1605–1626
- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron BrookeFulke Greville, 1st Baron BrookeFulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, de jure 13th Baron Latimer and 5th Baron Willoughby de Broke , known before 1621 as Sir Fulke Greville, was an Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and statesman....
1626–1628 - William Feilding, 1st Earl of DenbighWilliam Feilding, 1st Earl of DenbighWilliam Feilding, 1st Earl of Denbigh was an English naval officer and courtier.William Feilding was the son of Basil Fielding of Newnham Paddox in Warwickshire, , and of Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Walter Aston and his wife, Elizabeth Leveson.The descent of the Feildings from the house of Habsburg,...
1628–1643 - Francis Leigh, 1st Baron DunsmoreFrancis Leigh, 1st Earl of ChichesterFrancis Leigh, 1st Earl of Chichester was a Royalist politician and courtier around the period of the English Civil War....
1643–1646 - Interregnum
- Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of DenbighBasil Feilding, 2nd Earl of DenbighBasil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh was the eldest son of William Feilding, 1st Earl of Denbigh.Like his father, the son was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He was summoned to the House of Lords as Baron Feilding in March 1629...
1660–1675 - Edward Conway, 1st Earl of ConwayEdward Conway, 1st Earl of ConwayEdward Conway, 1st Earl of Conway PC, FRS was an English peer and politician who served as Secretary of State for the Northern Department between 1681 and 1683.-Life:...
1675–1683 - Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of SunderlandRobert Spencer, 2nd Earl of SunderlandRobert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland KG, PC was an English statesman and nobleman.-Life:Born in Paris, son of Henry Spencer, 1st Earl of Sunderland, Spencer inherited his father's peerage dignities at the age of three, becoming Baron Spencer of Wormleighton and Earl of Sunderland...
1683–1689 - George Compton, 4th Earl of NorthamptonGeorge Compton, 4th Earl of NorthamptonGeorge Compton, 4th Earl of Northampton, PC , styled Lord Compton from 1664 to 1681, was a British peer....
1689–1719 - Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of MacclesfieldThomas Parker, 1st Earl of MacclesfieldThomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield PC, FRS was an English Whig politician.-Youth and early career:He was born in Staffordshire, the son of Thomas Parker, an attorney at Leek. He was educated at Adams' Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge...
1719–1728 - John Montagu, 2nd Duke of MontaguJohn Montagu, 2nd Duke of MontaguJohn Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu, KG, KB, PC , styled Viscount Monthermer until 1705 and Marquess of Monthermer between 1705 and 1709, was a British peer...
1728–1749
For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire
Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire
This is an incomplete list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire. Since 1728, all Lord Lieutenants have also been Custos Rotulorum of Warwickshire.-Lord Lieutenants of Warwickshire:*Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick 1569–1570*vacant...
.