Custos Rotulorum of The North Riding of Yorkshire

This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of the North Riding of Yorkshire.

  • Sir Leonard Beckwith bef. 1544 – aft. 1547
  • Sir Henry Gates bef. 1562–1589
  • John Stanhope, 1st Baron Stanhope 1545–1621
  • Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby 1621–1626
  • Sir David Foulis, 1st Baronet 1626–1629
  • Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby 1629–1640
  • Henry Belasyse 1641–1646
  • Interregnum
  • Thomas Belasyse, 1st Earl Fauconberg 1660–1700
  • Charles Boyle, 2nd Earl of Burlington 1701–1704
  • Henry Boyle, 1st Baron Carleton 1704–1715
  • Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington 1715–1722
  • Conyers Darcy 1722
  • Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington 1722–1733
  • Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham 1733–1750
  • Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham 1751–1762
  • Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness 1762–1765
  • Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham 1765–1782
  • Henry Belasyse, 2nd Earl Fauconberg 1782–1802

For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire.

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