Custos Rotulorum of Staffordshire
Encyclopedia
This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum
of Staffordshire
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For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire
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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 Staffordshire
Staffordshire
Staffordshire is a landlocked 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. Part of the National Forest lies within its borders...
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- William WhorwoodWilliam WhorwoodSir William Whorwood was Solicitor General from 1536 to 1540 and then Attorney General under Henry VIII until his death.He was a younger son of John Whorwood, one of a family of minor gentry, who had long lived at Compton in Kinver...
bef. 1544–1545 - William Paget, 1st Baron PagetWilliam Paget, 1st Baron PagetWilliam Paget, 1st Baron Paget of Beaudesert , was an English statesman and accountant who held prominent positions in the service of Henry VIII, Edward VI and Mary I.-Early life:...
bef. 1547–1563 - Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of EssexWalter Devereux, 1st Earl of EssexWalter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, KG , an English nobleman and general. From 1573 until his death he fought in Ireland in connection with the Plantation of Ulster, where he ordered the massacre of Rathlin Island...
bef. 1573–1576 - Thomas TrenthamThomas TrenthamThomas Trentham was an English politician and Privy Councillor.He was the son of Richard Trentham of Rocester Abbey, who died in 1547....
bef. 1577–1587 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of EssexRobert Devereux, 2nd Earl of EssexRobert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, KG was an English nobleman and a favourite of Elizabeth I. Politically ambitious, and a committed general, he was placed under house arrest following a poor campaign in Ireland during the Nine Years' War in 1599...
bef. 1594–1601 - Thomas Gerard, 1st Baron GerardThomas Gerard, 1st Baron GerardThomas Gerard, 1st Baron Gerard was an English politician and peer. He was made Baron Gerard, Custos Rotulorum of Staffordshire, president of the Council of Wales and the Marches and Lord Lieutenant of Wales....
1601 – aft. 1608 - Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of EssexRobert Devereux, 3rd Earl of EssexRobert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex was an English Parliamentarian and soldier during the first half of the seventeenth century. With the start of the English Civil War in 1642 he became the first Captain-General and Chief Commander of the Parliamentarian army, also known as the Roundheads...
1617–1627 - Sir Edward LittletonEdward LittletonEdward Littleton was an administrator of the English East India Company. He served as President of Bengal in the early eighteenth century. From 1685 until 1689, he sat as Member of Parliament for Staffordshire.-References:...
1627–1628 - Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of EssexRobert Devereux, 3rd Earl of EssexRobert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex was an English Parliamentarian and soldier during the first half of the seventeenth century. With the start of the English Civil War in 1642 he became the first Captain-General and Chief Commander of the Parliamentarian army, also known as the Roundheads...
1628 –1642 - Sir Edward Littleton, 1st BaronetSir Edward Littleton, 1st BaronetSir Edward Littleton was a 17th century English Baronet and politician.He was the son of Sir Edward Littleton Kt. and Mary Fisher of Pillaton Hall, Staffordshire and representative of that notable family of Cavalier sympathies...
1642–1646 - Interregnum
- William Paget, 5th Baron PagetWilliam Paget, 5th Baron PagetWilliam Paget, 5th Baron Paget an English peer born at Beaudesert House Staffordshire, England to William Paget, 4th Baron Paget and Lettice Knollys.-Career:...
1660–1678 - James Scott, 1st Duke of MonmouthJames Scott, 1st Duke of MonmouthJames Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, 1st Duke of Buccleuch, KG, PC , was an English nobleman. Originally called James Crofts or James Fitzroy, he was born in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, the eldest illegitimate son of Charles II and his mistress, Lucy Walter...
1678–1680 - Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of SunderlandRobert Spencer, 2nd Earl of SunderlandRobert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland KG, PC was an English statesman and nobleman.-Life:Born in Paris, son of Henry Spencer, 1st Earl of Sunderland, Spencer inherited his father's peerage dignities at the age of three, becoming Baron Spencer of Wormleighton and Earl of Sunderland...
1680–1681 - Charles Talbot, 12th Earl of ShrewsburyCharles Talbot, 1st Duke of ShrewsburyCharles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, KG, PC was an English statesman. Born to Roman Catholic parents, he remained in that faith until 1679 when—during the time of the Popish Plot and following the advice of the divine John Tillotson—he converted to the Church of England...
1681–1688 - Walter Aston, 3rd Lord Aston of ForfarWalter Aston, 3rd Lord Aston of ForfarWalter Aston, 3rd Lord Aston of Forfar was a son of Walter Aston, 2nd Lord Aston of Forfar, and Lady Mary Weston.He succeeded his father as Lord Aston of Forfar in the peerage of Scotland in 1678....
1688–1689 - William Paget, 6th Baron PagetWilliam Paget, 6th Baron PagetWilliam Paget, 6th Baron Paget was an English peer and Ambassador.Paget was English ambassador to Vienna between 1689 and 1692 and Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople between 1692 and 1702, during which time he was central to the negotiation of the Treaty of Carlowitz between the...
1689–1713 - Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge 1713–1715
- Henry Newport, 3rd Earl of BradfordHenry Newport, 3rd Earl of BradfordHenry Newport, 3rd Earl of Bradford was an English peer and Whig politician.The oldest son of the 2nd Earl of Bradford and Mary Wilbraham was educated at Christ Church, Oxford...
1715–1725 - Washington Shirley, 2nd Earl Ferrers 1725–1729
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- John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl GowerJohn Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl GowerJohn Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower PC , known as The Baron Gower from 1709 to 1754, was a British Tory politician, one of the first Tories to enter government in the 18th century.- Background :...
1742–1754 - Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of StaffordGranville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of StaffordGranville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford PC , known as Viscount Trentham from 1746 to 1754 and as The Earl Gower from 1754 to 1786, was a British politician.-Background:...
1755–1799 - George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Marquess of StaffordGeorge Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of SutherlandGeorge Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland KG, PC , known as Viscount Trentham from 1758 to 1786, as Earl Gower from 1786 to 1803 and as The Marquess of Stafford from 1803 to 1833, was a British politician, diplomat, landowner and patron of the arts. He is estimated to have been the...
1799–1828 - Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 2nd Earl TalbotCharles Chetwynd-Talbot, 2nd Earl TalbotCharles Chetwynd Chetwynd-Talbot, 2nd Earl Talbot KG, PC, FRS , styled Viscount Ingestre between 1784 and 1793, was a British politician. He served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland between 1817 and 1821....
1828–1849
For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire
Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire
This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant for Staffordshire. Since 1828, all Lord Lieutenants have also been Custos Rotulorum of Staffordshire.-Lord Lieutenants of Staffordshire:*Henry Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford 1559...
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