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This is an incomplete list of people who have served as
Lord Lieutenant of
Norfolk . Since 1689, all Lord Lieutenants have also been
Custos Rotulorum of Norfolk .
William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton , 1549 –
Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex 1557–1559
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk 1559–1572
Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon 3 July 1585 – 23 July 1596
Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton 16 July 1605 – 16 June 1614
Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel 18 April 1615 – 1642 jointly with
Henry Howard, Lord Maltravers 28 February 1633 – 1642
Interregnum
Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton 24 September 1660 – 19 August 1661
Horatio Townshend, 1st Viscount Townshend 19 August 1661 – 6 March 1676
Sir Robert Paston, 1st Earl of Yarmouth 6 March 1676 – 8 March 1683
Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk 5 April 1683 – 2 April 1701
Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend 26 May 1701 – 30 April 1713
James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde 30 April 1713 – 30 October 1714
Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend 30 October 1714 – 25 June 1730
Charles Townshend, Lord Lynn 25 June 1730 – 13 December 1739
John Hobart, 1st Earl of Buckinghamshire 13 December 1739 – 22 September 1756
George Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford 29 June 1757 – 5 December 1791
George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend 24 February 1792 – 14 September 1807
William Assheton Harbord, 2nd Baron Suffield 11 March 1808 – 1 August 1821
John Wodehouse, 2nd Baron Wodehouse 1 November 1821 – 31 May 1846
Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester 28 July 1846 – 3 September 1906
Thomas Coke, 3rd Earl of Leicester 3 September 1906 – 1 May 1929
Russell James Colman 1 May 1929 – 14 March 1944
Thomas Coke, 4th Earl of Leicester 14 March 1944 – 21 August 1949
Sir Edmund Bacon, 13th and 14th Baronet 30 September 1949 – 1978
Sir Timothy Colman 30 March 1978 – 19 September 2004
[1]
Sir Richard Jewson 19 September 2004 – 5 August 2019
[2]
Lady Dannatt 5 August 2019 – present
Deputy lieutenants
A deputy lieutenant of Norfolk is commissioned by the Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk.
Deputy lieutenants support the work of the lord-lieutenant. There can be several deputy lieutenants at any time, depending on the population of the county. Their appointment does not terminate with the changing of the lord-lieutenant, but they usually retire at age 75.
18th Century
15 February 1793: John Micklethwait
[3]
15 February 1793: John Marcon
[3]
15 February 1793: Francis Daltonm
[4]
15 February 1793: Edward Parry
[4]
15 February 1793: James Burkin Burroughes
[4]
15 February 1793: Charles Collyer
[4]
15 February 1793: Thomas Fisher
[4]
15 February 1793: Edmund Rolfe
[4]
15 February 1793: James Coldham
[4]
15 February 1793: John Mann, Gent.
[4]
6 June 1798: Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Halton
[5]
6 June 1798: Thomas Blake
[5]
6 June 1798: John Holley
[5]
6 June 1798: Rev. Robert Thomlinson
[5]
6 June 1798: Anthony Hammond
[5]
References
J.C. Sainty (1970). "Lieutenancies of Counties, 1585–1642". Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research (Special Supplement No. 8): 28.
J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 . London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
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