This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of Northumberland.
Robert Horsley bef. 1547–?
Sir Robert Brandling bef. 1558–1568
Sir John Forster bef. 1573 – aft. 1594
Ralph Eure, 3rd Baron Eure 1596–1598
Sir Robert Carey 1598 – bef. 1605
Edward Talbot, 8th Earl of Shrewsbury bef. 1605–1618
Sir Ralph Delaval 1618–1628
William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Newcastle 1628–1632
Sir William Widdrington 1632–1646
Interregnum
William Widdrington, 2nd Baron Widdrington 1660–1675
Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle 1675–1688
Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough 1689–1721
Richard Lumley, 2nd Earl of Scarbrough 1722–1740
Charles Bennet, 2nd Earl of Tankerville 1740–1753
Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland 1753–1786
Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland 1786–1800
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland 1800–1802
Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland 1802–1817
For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland.
