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Holders of the office

Brackets indicate a date or approximate date for which there is evidence that the named person was holder of this office. The reigning monarch is given if the date is not known more precisely.

(Hen VII) William Tyndale or Tendale

(Hen VII/Hen VIII) Thomas Bysley

(1521) William Hasyng or Hastings

1530–1536 Thomas Mylner or Milner or Miller

1536–1539 Fulk ap Howell

1539–1553 Martin Maroffe

1553–1564 William Colbarne or Cowarne

1564–1574 Edmund Knight

1574–1588 Nicholas Paddy

1588–1597 John Raven

1597–1618 William Smith

1618–1624 John Philipot

1624–1638 Thomas Thompson

1638–1661 William Crowne

1661–1676 Francis Sandford

1676–1677 Thomas May

1677–1689 Gregory King

1689– Peers Mauduit

(Will III) Hugh Clopton

(Will III) John Hare

1704– Dudley Downs

(Geo I) Arthur Shepherd

1756–1758 Henry Hill

1758–1763 Thomas Sherrif

1763–1774 Thomas Locke

1774–1780 Ralph Bigland

1780–1786 Benjamin Pingo

1786–1797 James Monson Philips

1797–1813 James Cathrow

1813–1820 Charles George Young

1820–1833 Francis Townsend

1833–1833 James Rock

1833–1848 Thomas William King

1848–1859 Edward Stephen Dendy

1859–1870 George Edward Cokayne, Esq., FSA

1870–1880 Sir William Henry Weldon, KCVO, FSA

1880–1886 Sir Alfred Scott Scott-Gatty, KCVO, KJStJ, FSA

1886–1893 Sir Albert William Woods, GCVO, KCB, KCMG, KGStJ, FSA

1893–1911 Everard Green, Esq., FSA

1911–1919 Sir Algar Henry Stafford Howard, KCB, KCVO, MC, TD

1919–1922 Lt. Alexander Warren Drury Mitton

1922–1926 Sir John Dunamace Heaton-Armstrong, MVO

1926–1941 Eric Neville Geijer, Esq., MC, FSA

1946–1951 Michael Roger Trappes-Lomax, Esq., FSA

1952–1962 Robin Ian Evelyn Milne Stuart de la Lanne-Mirrlees, Esq.

1962–1968 Sir Conrad Marshall John Fisher Swan, KCVO, PhD, FSA

1970–1978 Theobald Mathew, Esq.

1978–1989 Patric Dickinson, Esq.

1989–1995 Timothy Hugh Stewart Duke, Esq.

1998–2010 Clive Edwin Alexander Cheesman, Esq., PhD