Custos Rotulorum of Kent

Updated on Dec 08, 2023

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This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of Kent.

Sir John Baker bef. 1544–1558

Thomas Wotton bef. 1562–1587

Sir Henry Cobham 1587–1592

Sir Edward Hoby bef. 1594–1617

Ludovic Stewart, 2nd Duke of Lennox 1617–1624

Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke 1624–1642

Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester 1642–1646

Interregnum

Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Winchilsea 1660–1688

Christopher Roper, 5th Baron Teynham 1688–1689

Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Winchilsea 1689

Henry Sidney, 1st Earl of Romney 1689–1704

Charles Finch, 4th Earl of Winchilsea 1704–1705

Lewis Watson, 1st Earl of Rockingham 1705–1724

Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset 1724–1765

For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Kent.

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