Custos Rotulorum of Shropshire
Encyclopedia
This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum
of Shropshire
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For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire
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Custos rotulorum
Custos rotulorum is the keeper of an English county's records and, by virtue of that office, the highest civil officer in the county...
of Shropshire
Shropshire
Shropshire is a county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. It borders Wales to the west...
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- Thomas HolteThomas HolteSir Thomas Holte, 1st Baronet was the original owner of Aston Hall , the man after whom the Holte End stand of Villa Park is named, and the possessor of quite a legendary temper....
bef. 1544–1546 - Sir Thomas BromleyThomas BromleySir Thomas Bromley was an English lord chancellor.-Life:He was born in Staffordshire, was educated at Oxford University and then called to the bar at the Middle Temple...
1546–1555 - Humphrey Onslow bef. 1562 – aft. 1564
- George Bromley bef. 1573–1589
- Sir George Mainwaring bef. 1594–1596
- Sir Richard LevesonRichard LevesonSir Richard Leveson was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1642. He supported the Royalist cause during the English Civil War....
1596–1605 - John Egerton, 1st Earl of BridgewaterJohn Egerton, 1st Earl of BridgewaterJohn Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater KB, PC was an English peer and politician.The son of the Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley and Elizabeth Ravenscroft, he was a Member of Parliament for Callington from 1597 to 1598, and for Shropshire in 1601. Knighted on 8 April 1599, he was Baron of the...
1605–1646 - Interregnum
- Francis Newport, 1st Earl of BradfordFrancis Newport, 1st Earl of BradfordFrancis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford PC , styled The Honourable between 1642 and 1651, was an English soldier, courtier and Whig politician.-Background:...
1660–1708 - Richard Newport, 2nd Earl of BradfordRichard Newport, 2nd Earl of BradfordRichard Newport, 2nd Earl of Bradford PC , styled The Honourable from 1651 to 1694 and subsequently Viscount Newport until 1708, was an English peer and Whig politician.-Background:...
1708–1712
For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire
Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire
This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire. Before the English Civil War, the lieutenancy of Shropshire was always held by the Lord Lieutenant of Wales, but after the Restoration, its lieutenants were appointed separately...
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