Custos Rotulorum of County Londonderry and Down
The Custos Rotulorum of Londonderry and Down was the highest civil officer in counties Londonderry and Down.
Incumbents
Londonderry
- 1663–1665 John Clotworthy, 1st Viscount Massereene [1]
- 1666–?1695 John Skeffington, 2nd Viscount Massereene (attainted 1689, reappointed 1693, died 1695) [2]
Down
- 1660–1663 Hugh Montgomery, 1st Earl of Mount Alexander
- 1663–? William Montgomery (died 1706) [3]
- 1678–?1693 Michael Hill (died 1693) [4] (also Custos Rotulorum of Antrim 1678-?)
- ?1693–?1699 Michael Hill (died 1699)[5]
- 1729–1742 Trevor Hill, 1st Viscount Hillsborough (died 1742) [6]
- 1742–1793 Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire [7]
- 1793–?1801 Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire (died 1801)
Londonderry and Down
- 1803–?1821 Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry [8]
- 1821–1822 Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh [9]
- 1822–?1854 Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry (died 1854) [9]
For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Londonderry and Lord Lieutenant of Down
References
- "Foster/Massereene Papers" (PDF). Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
- "Foster Massereene Papers" (PDF). Records Office of Northern Ireland. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
- "The Hamilton Manuscripts". JSTOR 20608754. Missing or empty
|url=(help) - Collins, Arthur. The Peerage of England. p. 415.
- Collins, Arthur. The peerage of England. p. 456.
- Collins, Arthur. The peerage of England. p. 457.
- The English peerage, Volume 1. p. 408.
- Debrett, John. The Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland. p. 982.
- Urquhart, Diane. The Ladies of Londonderry: Women and Political Patronage. p. 28.
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