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Lord Lieutenant of Kent

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This is a list of people who have served as Lord-Lieutenant of Kent. Since 1746, all Lords Lieutenant have also been Custos Rotulorum of Kent.

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Lords Lieutenant of Kent

  • Sir Thomas Cheney 1551–?
  • William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham 3 July 1585 – 6 March 1597
  • Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham 29 October 1597 – 24 March 1603
  • Edward Wotton, 1st Baron Wotton 28 January 1604 – 31 May 1620
  • George Villiers, 1st Marquess of Buckingham 31 May 1620 – 8 June 1620
  • Ludovic Stuart, 2nd Duke of Lennox 8 June 1620 – 16 February 1624
  • Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke 20 March 1624 – 1642
  • Interregnum
  • Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Winchilsea 10 July 1660 – 16 January 1688 jointly with
  • Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton 16 July 1662 – 16 May 1667 and
  • Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond 13 May 1668 – 12 December 1672
  • Christopher Roper, 5th Baron Teynham 16 January 1688 – 25 October 1688
  • Louis de Duras, 2nd Earl of Feversham 25 October 1688 – 17 May 1689
  • Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Winchilsea 17 May 1689 – 3 October 1689
  • Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney 3 October 1689 – 8 April 1704 jointly with
  • Vere Fane, 4th Earl of Westmorland 18 April 1692 – 29 December 1693
  • Charles Finch, 4th Earl of Winchilsea 2 May 1704 – 6 April 1705
  • Lewis Watson, 1st Earl of Rockingham 6 April 1705 – 19 March 1724
  • John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester 3 June 1724 – 27 September 1737
  • Lewis Watson, 2nd Earl of Rockingham 17 November 1737 – 4 November 1745
  • Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset 8 July 1746 – 10 October 1765
  • Charles Sackville, 2nd Duke of Dorset 17 December 1765 – 5 January 1769
  • John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset 27 January 1769 – 30 June 1797
  • Charles Marsham, 1st Earl of Romney 30 June 1797 – 9 June 1808
  • John Pratt, 1st Marquess Camden 9 June 1808 – 8 October 1840
  • Henry Tufton, 11th Earl of Thanet 16 November 1840 – 19 October 1846
  • George Cowper, 6th Earl Cowper 19 October 1846 – 15 April 1856
  • John Townshend, 1st Earl Sydney 10 June 1856 – 14 February 1890
  • Arthur Stanhope, 6th Earl Stanhope 18 March 1890 – 19 April 1905
  • John Pratt, 4th Marquess Camden 5 June 1905 – 14 December 1943
  • Wykeham Stanley Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis 1 September 1944 – 1972
  • Gavin Astor, 2nd Baron Astor of Hever 2 August 1972 – 2 August 1982
  • Robert Leigh-Pemberton, Esquire 2 August 1982 – 23 January 2002
  • Allan Willett 23 January 2002 – 24 August 2011
  • Philip Sidney, 2nd Viscount De L’Isle 1 September 2011 -

    • Deputy Lieutenants

  • Ivo Francis Walter Bligh, 8th Earl of Darnley March 1901
  • Sir John Furley March 1901
  • Bill Cockcroft
  • Kelvin Holford
  • Jools Holland
  • Sir Keith Speed
  • John Astor, 3rd Baron Astor of Hever
  • Patrick Tootal
  • Colonel Michael Howard Seys-Phillips, April 1971
  • Honorary Colonel Frederick Kenneth Theobald, April 1971

    • References

    Lord Lieutenant of Kent Wikipedia
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