Recorder of Nottingham

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The Recorder of Nottingham is the highest appointed legal officer of the Crown within the Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire County areas.

The current Recorder of Nottingham is His Honour Judge Gregory Dickinson QC, who was appointed in 2016.

List of Recorders of Nottingham

Sir Thomas Babington 1492 - 1519

Radus Barton

Richard Parkyns

Henry Pierrepont appointed 1603

Wills Fletcher

John Holles, 2nd Earl of Clare appointed 1642

Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester 1666 - (d. 1680)

Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1688 -

William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire 1690 - (d. 1707)

Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull - 1726

Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1726 -

Edward Bigland

William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland

Evelyn Pierrepont, 2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull 1769 -

Henry Pelham-Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne 1773-1794

William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland 1794–1809

Henry Richard Vassall Fox, 3rd Lord Holland (died 1840)

Richard Wildman 1837 - 1881

Edward Chandos Leigh 1881 - 1909

Judge Henry Yorke Stanger 1909 - 1911

Sir William Ryland Dent Adkins 1911 - 1920

Hugo J. Young 1920 - 1927

Henry Holmes Joy 1927 - 1934

John Frederick Eales 1934 - 1936

Sir Albion Richardson 1936 - 1950

Christopher Nyholm Shawcross 1950 - 1961

Anthony Leonard Cripps 1961 - 1971

Arthur Ellis 1974 -1991

Judge Michael Stokes QC 2007 - 2016

His Honour Judge Gregory Dickinson QC 2016 -

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