Custos Rotulorum of Middlesex explained

This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of Middlesex.

Sir Roger Cholmley bef. 1544 - aft. 1547
Edward Hastings, Baron Hastings of Loughborough bef. 1558 - 1571
Richard Goderick bef. 1562 - bef. 1564
Sir Thomas Wroth bef. 1564 - 1573
Sir Gilbert Gerard 1573 - 1593
Sir John Fortescue c. 1594 - 1607
Sir Thomas Lake c. 1608 - 1619
Sir Thomas Edmondes 1619 - 1639
Sir Henry Vane 1639 - 1642
Sir Peter Wyche 1642 - 1643
Sir Edward Nicholas 1643 - 1646
Interregnum
Sir Edward Nicholas 1660 - 1669
William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven 1669 - 1689
John Holles, 4th Earl of Clare 1689 - 1692
William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford 1692 - 1700
Lord Edward Russell 1700 - 1701
Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford 1701 - 1711
John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby 1711 - 1714
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle 1714 - 1762
Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland 1762 - 1786
vacant
Henry Dundas 1793 - 1794
William Bentinck, Marquess of Titchfield 1794 - 1802

For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex.

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