List of lord-lieutenants in the United Kingdom explained

Lord-lieutenants are appointed in England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

Lord-lieutenants

Lieutenancy areaNameDate
scope=row AberdeenshireSandy Manson20 March 2020
scope=row AngusPatricia Sawers25 August 2019
scope=row Antrim29 June 2019
scope=row Argyll and ButeJane MacLeod14 July 2020[1]
scope=row ArmaghThe Earl of Caledon15 May 1989
scope=row Ayrshire and ArranIona McDonald26 October 2017
scope=row BanffshireAndrew Simpson4 August 2019
scope=row BedfordshireSusan Lousanda6 September 2022
scope=row BelfastDame Fionnuala Jay-O'Boyle6 July 2014
scope=row BerkshireAndrew Try24 October 2023
scope=row BerwickshireJeanna Swan25 April 2014
scope=row BristolLois Golding24 April 2017
scope=row BuckinghamshireThe Countess Howe[2] 26 June 2020
scope=row CaithnessThe Viscount Thurso17 August 2017
scope=row CambridgeshireJulie Spence4 April 2017
scope=row CheshireLady Redmond25 August 2021[3]
scope=row ClackmannanshireLieutenant Colonel Johnny Stewart 5 June 2014
scope=row ClwydHarry Fetherstonhaugh17 January 2013
scope=row CornwallColonel Sir Edward Bolitho19 September 2011
scope=row CumbriaAlexander Scott6 July 2023
scope=row DerbyshireElizabeth FothergillJuly 2020
scope=row DevonDavid Fursdon17 April 2015[4]
scope=row DorsetMichael Dooley5 September 2024[5]
scope=row DownGawn Rowan Hamilton26 September 2021
scope=row DumfriesLady MacGregor10 February 2016
scope=row DunbartonshireJill Young12 August 2020
scope=row Dundee[6] Bill Campbell20 May 2022
scope=row DurhamSusan Snowdon8 March 2013
scope=row DyfedSara Edwards7 February 2016
scope=row East LothianRoderick Uruquhart15 March 2021[7]
scope=row East Riding of YorkshireJames Dick25 June 2019
scope=row East SussexAndrew Blackman18 August 2021
scope=row Edinburgh[8] Robert Aldridge26 May 2022
scope=row EssexJennifer Tolhurst5 August 2017
scope=row FermanaghThe Viscount Brookeborough9 July 2012
scope=row FifeRobert Balfour22 January 2015
scope=row Glasgow[9] Jacqueline McLaren19 May 2022
scope=row GloucestershireEdward Gillespie28 October 2018
scope=row Greater LondonSir Ken Olisa29 May 2015
scope=row Greater ManchesterDiane Hawkins4 July 2022
scope=row GwentBrigadier Robert Aitken24 March 2016
scope=row GwyneddEdmund Seymour Bailey16 April 2014
scope=row HampshireNigel Atkinson11 September 2014
scope=row HerefordshireEdward Harley15 April 2020
scope=row HertfordshireRobert Voss4 August 2017
scope=row InvernessJames Wotherspoon 4 August 2021
scope=row Isle of WightSusan Sheldon25 March 2019
scope=row KentLady Annabel Colgrain21 April 2020
scope=row KincardineshireAlastair Macphie1 October 2020
scope=row KirkcudbrightLord Sinclair 29 July 2021
scope=row LanarkshireLady Haughey13 November 2017
scope=row LancashireAmanda Parker[10] 2 August 2023
scope=row LeicestershireMike Kapur14 June 2018
scope=row LincolnshireToby Dennis23 February 2015
scope=row City of London[11] Sir Nicholas Lyons11 November 2022
scope=row City of LondonderryIan Crowe12 January 2023
scope=row County LondonderryAlison Millar12 June 2018
scope=row MerseysideMark Blundell13 September 2017
scope=row Mid GlamorganPeter Vaughan17 April 2019
scope=row MidlothianLieutenant Colonel Richard Callander 3 April 2020
scope=row MorayMajor General Seymour Monro29 January 2020
scope=row NairnGeorge Asher19 January 2018
scope=row NorfolkLady Dannatt28 May 2019
scope=row NorthamptonshireJames Saunders Watson30 March 2020
scope=row NorthumberlandThe Duchess of Northumberland12 May 2009
scope=row North YorkshireJohanna Ropner6 November 2018
scope=row Nottinghamshire[12] Sir John Peace21 July 2012
scope=row OrkneyElaine Grieve29 January 2020
scope=row OxfordshireMarjorie Glasgow1 October 2021
scope=row Perth and KinrossGordon Leckie23 July 2019
scope=row PowysTia Jones10 September 2018
scope=row RenfrewshireColonel Peter McCarthy13 March 2019
scope=row Ross and CromartyJoanie Whiteford29 May 2019
scope=row Roxburgh, Ettrick and LauderdaleThe Duke of Buccleuch and Queensbury28 December 2016
scope=row RutlandSarah Furness3 April 2018
scope=row ShropshireAnna Turner 3 January 2019
scope=row ShetlandLindsay William Tulloch3 April 2024
scope=row SomersetMohammed Saddiq29 October 2022
scope=row South GlamorganMorfudd Meredith5 July 2016
scope=row South YorkshireDame Hilary ChapmanNovember 2021
scope=row StaffordshireIan Dudson29 March 2012
scope=row Stirling and FalkirkAlan Simpson28 February 2017
scope=row SuffolkThe Dowager Countess of Euston13 December 2014
scope=row SurreyMichael More-Molyneux23 August 2015[13]
scope=row SutherlandMajor General Patrick Marriott1 August 2022
scope=row TweeddaleLady of Traquair20 May 2014
scope=row Tyne and WearLucy Winskell21 February 2022
scope=row TyroneRobert Lowry Scott5 July 2009
scope=row WarwickshireTimothy Cox2 April 2013
scope=row Western IslesIain Macaulay8 March 2022
scope=row West GlamorganRoberta Fleet16 March 2020[14]
scope=row West LothianMoira Niven20 September 2017
scope=row West MidlandsDr Derrick Anderson6 August 2024
scope=row West SussexLady Emma Barnard23 May 2022
scope=row West YorkshireEdmund Anderson3 September 2018
scope=row WigtownAileen Brewis20 February 2020
scope=row WiltshireSarah TroughtonFebruary 2012
scope=row WorcestershireBeatrice Grant17 March 2023

See also

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lord-Lieutenant for Argyll and Bute: 14 July 2020. gov.uk. 23 August 2020.
  2. Web site: Lord-Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire: 26 June 2020 . gov.uk. 23 August 2020.
  3. Web site: Her Majesty's Lord- Lieutenant of Cheshire . The Cheshire Lieutenancy . 18 September 2021.
  4. Web site: Lord-Lieutenant for Devon: David Fursdon. gov.uk.
  5. Web site: 2024-09-17 . New Lord-Lieutenant of Dorset appointed . 2024-09-17 . Bournemouth Echo . en.
  6. The Lord Provost of Dundee is the leader of the City of Dundee local authority in Scotland. They are elected by the city council and serve not only as the chair of that body, but as a figurehead and Lord Lieutenant for the city.
  7. Web site: Appointment of Her Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant for East Lothian: 1 February 2021. 2021-07-10. GOV.UK. en.
  8. The Lord Provost of Edinburgh is ex officio the Lord-Lieutenant of Edinburgh.
  9. The Lord Provost of the City of Glasgow, by virtue of office, is Lord Lieutenant of the County of the City of Glasgow.
  10. Web site: Appointment of Lord-Lieutenant of Lancashire – GOV.UK . 4 April 2023 . www.gov.uk.
  11. The City of London is unique in that the post of Lord-Lieutenant is held in commission. The Lord Mayor of the City of London is the head of the Commission of Lieutenancy.
  12. Web site: Peace, John: Brief Biography. Reuters. 30 October 2012.
  13. Web site: Lord-Lieutenant for Surrey: Michael More-Molyneux.
  14. Web site: H.M. Lord Lieutenant of West Glamorgan. H.M. Lord Lieutenant of West Glamorgan. 12 September 2020.

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