List of office holders of the Duchy of Cornwall explained

Note: Some of these offices were continued from the Earldom of Cornwall.

Offices

Lord Steward and Lord Warden of the Stannaries in Cornwall and Devon

• See Lord Warden of the Stannaries

Vice-Admiral of Cornwall

• See List of Vice-Admirals of Cornwall

High Sheriff of Cornwall

• See High Sheriff of Cornwall

Chancellor and Keeper of the Great Seal (1476–1867?)

• 1476 Sir William Allington
• 1490 John Arundell, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield
• 1502 Robert Frost
• ? John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury^[1]
• 1610?–12? Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet
• 1616?–17 Sir Francis Bacon
• 1617–? Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet
• 17? –17? Nicholas Lechmere, 1st Baron Lechmere^[2]
• 1729–40 Alexander Denton
• 1740–51: Sir Thomas Bootle
• vacant
• 1802 Thomas Erskine
• 1806–15 William Adam
• 1816–18? John Leach
• 1843–67? Thomas Pemberton Leigh

Keeper of the Privy Seal (1846?–1933)

• 1846? Sir William Gibson-Craig, Bt
• 1852 Marquess of Chandos
• 1853 Lord Alfred Hervey^[3]
• 1855 The Viscount Monck
• 1858 Henry Brand^[4]
• 1858 Henry Whitmore^[5]
• 1859 Sir William Alexander, Bt^[6]
• 1863 Sir William Dunbar, Bt^[7]
• 1865 Herbert William Fisher^[8]
• 1870 The Earl of Leicester^[9]
• 1901–06 The Earl Spencer
• 1907 The Earl of Mount Edgcumbe^[10]
• 1913–33 The Lord Clinton
• see Lord Warden of the Stannaries since 1933

Receiver-General (1400–present)

• 1400 John Waterton
• 1413 John Willecotes
• 1422 John Copleston Jnr
• 1422 Thomas Congreve
• 1423 Lewis John
• 1433 Robert Whittingham
• 1439 Thomas Gloucester
• 1444 John Brecknock
• 1456 Robert Whittingham
• 1461 William, Lord Hastings
• 1473 Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers
• 1483 Sir John Sapcotes
• 1485 Sir Robert Willoughby (later 1st Lord Willoughby de Broke)
• 1503 Sir Richard Nanfan
• 1507 Sir John Arundell
• 1533 Sir Thomas Arundell
• 1553 Sir Henry Gates
• 1553 Sir Edward Waldegrave
• 1553 John Coswarth^[11]
• 1574 Thomas Cosoworth
• 1586 Sir Francis Godolphin
• 1604 Sir Richard Smith
• 1618 Thomas Smyth
• 1637 Sir David Cunningham
• 1638 Robert Napier of Punknoll^[12]
• 1643 Richard Nicholl
• 1646 Arthur Upton
• 1650 George Crompton
• 1650 Gabriel Tailor
• 1709–12 Robert Corker
• 1715–20 Edward Eliot
• 1720–31 Robert Corker
• 1731–36 Edward Penrose of Penrose Law Suite 1749
• bef. 1740–48? Richard Eliot
• 1751 Edward Craggs-Eliot, 1st Baron Eliot^[13]
• 1804 Richard Brinsley Sheridan^[14]
• 1807 The Viscount Lake
• 1808 Richard Brinsley Sheridan^[15]
• 1816 Sir John McMahon, 1st Baronet
• 1817 Lord William Gordon^[16]
• 1823 Sir William Knighton, Bt
• 1830? Sir Henry Wheatley, Bt
• 1849–62 Office abolished.
• 1862 Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps^[17]
• 1866 Sir Thomas Myddleton-Biddulph^[18]
• 1878 Sir William Thomas Knollys^[19]
• 1883 Sir John Rose, Bt^[20]
• 1888 Sir Robert Kingscote^[21]
• 1908 The Lord Revelstoke^[22]
• 1929–36 Sir Edward Peacock^[23]
• 1961–73 The Lord Ashburton
• 1974 The Hon. Sir John Baring (later Lord Ashburton)
• 1990 The Earl Cairns^[24]
• 2000 The Hon. James Leigh-Pemberton
• 2022 Edward Harley CBE

Attorney-General (1457–present)

• 1457 Thomas Throckmorton
• 1472 Sir William Allington
• 1477 John Twynho
• 1490 John Mordaunt
• 1511 William Esyngton
• 1515 William Ruddall
• 1515 Sir Robert Southwell
• 1529 John Baldewyn
• 1532 Sir Richard Riche
• 1532 John Cocke
• 1561 John Penne
• 1567? Stephen Brente
• 1599? Thomas Harrison
• 1601 Hannibal Vivian
• 1603 Gilbert Mitchell
• 1604 Thomas Fleetwood
• 1605 Thomas Stephens
• 1615 Sir John Walter
• 1632? William Noye
• 1634 Sir John Bankes
• 1635 Sir Richard Lane
• 1643 Sir Robert Holborne
• 1648? Francis Buller
• 1698 Francis Pengelly
• 1714 Spencer Cowper
• 1728 William Lee
• 1730 William Fortescue
• 1736 Robert Pauncefort
• 1748 Henry Bathurst
• 1754 Robert Henley (later Earl of Northington)
• 1756 Charles Pratt (later Earl Camden)
• 1783 Thomas Erskine (later Lord Erskine)
• 1793 Robert Graham^[25]
• 1800 Vicary Gibbs
• 1805 William Adam^[26]
• 1806 William Garrow
• 1812 Joseph Jekyll^[27]
• 1816 William Draper Best
• 1819 Charles Warren^[28]
• 1841 Thomas Pemberton (later Lord Kingsdown)
• 1843 The Hon. John Chetwynd-Talbot
• 1852 Sir Edward Smirke
• 1863 Sir William Alexander, Bt^[7]
• 1873 George Loch^[29]
• 1877 Alfred Henry Thesiger^[30]
• 1877 Sir Charles Hall^[31]
• 1892 Sir Henry James^[32] (later Lord James of Hereford)
• 1895 Charles Cripps^[33] (later Lord Parmoor)
• 1914 George Cave (later Lord Cave)
• 1915 Henry Duke^[34] (later Lord Merrivale)
• 1920 Sir Douglas Hogg (later Viscount Hailsham)
• 1923 Anthony Hawke^[35]
• 1928 Geoffrey Lawrence^[36] (later Lord Trevethin and Oaksey)
• 1932 Walter Monckton^[37] (later Lord Monckton of Brenchley)
• 1951–60: Charles Russell (later Lord Russell of Killowen)
• 1960 Sir Joseph Molony
• 1969 Anthony Lloyd
• 1978 Andrew Morritt
• 1988 Robert Carnwath
• 1994 Sir Jeremy Sullivan^[38]
• 1998 Nicholas Underhill^[39]
• 2006 Jonathan Crow^[40]

Surveyor-General (1747–1849)

• 1729–38 Richard Eliot
• 1747 The Lord Baltimore
• 1751 Edward Bayntun-Rolt^[41]
• 1796? Sir John Morshead, Bt
• 1808–29 Benjamin Tucker^[42]
• 1833 Philip Sidney, 1st Baron De L'Isle and Dudley
• 1849 James Robert Gardiner^[43]

Keeper of the Records (1843–present)

• 1843–49 James Robert Gardiner
• ?–1873 Joshua Wigley Bateman
• 1873 George Wilmshurst^[44]
• 1886 Sir Maurice Holzmann^[45]
• 1908 Sir Walter Peacock^[46]
• 1930 Major Hilgrove McCormick^{[47] [48]}
• 1936–54 Sir Clive Burn
• ?–1972 Sir Patrick Kingsley
• 1972 Francis Anthony Gray^[49]
• 1981 John Walter Yeoman Higgs^[50]
• 1987 Sir David Landale^[51]
• 1993 Sir John James
• 1997 Sir Walter Ross^[52]
• 2013 Alastair Martin

Auditor (1509–1993)

• 1509 Hugh Molyneux
• 1543? Robert Hennage
• 1543 Thomas Mildmay
• 1547 Walter Mildmay
• 1567 John Conyers
• 1574? William Neale
• 1590? Robert Paddon
• 1602 Nathaniel Fulwer
• 1603 Richard Connock
• 1622 Thomas Gewen
• 1633 John Downes
• 1645 William Loving
• 1661 William Harbord
• 1692 Philip Bertie
• 1704–23? Albemarle Bertie
• 1735–51 Charles Montagu
• 1751–67 William Trevanion^[13]
• 1768 Richard Hussey
• 1770 John Buller
• 1783 Henry Lyte
• 1791 John Willett Payne^[53]
• 1796 Thomas Tyrwhitt
• 1803 Sir John McMahon, 1st Baronet
• 1816 Benjamin Bloomfield
• 1817 Sir William Knighton, 1st Baronet
• 1823–41 George Harrison
• 1843 Edward White
• 1851 Sir William Anderson^[54]
• 1891 Lesley Probyn^[55]
• 1916–? Laurence Halsey^[56]
• 1957–? Edmund Parker
• 1971–93 Jeffery Bowman

Solicitor-General (1714–present)

• 1714 John Fortescue Aland
  • 1715 Laurence Carter 1717 Charles Talbot
• 1726 John Finch
• 1729 William Fortescue
• 1730 Robert Pauncefort
• 1736 Richard Hollings
• 1741 Alexander Hume Campbell
• 1746 Henry Bathurst
• 1748 Paul Joddrell
• 1751 Robert Henley
• 1754 Charles Yorke
• 1783 Sir Arthur Leary Piggott
• 1793 John Anstruther^[25]
• 1795 Vicary Gibbs
• 1800 Thomas Manners-Sutton
• 1802 William Adam^[57]
• 1805 Joseph Jekyll^[26]
• 1812 Samuel Shepherd^[27]
• 1813 William Draper Best^[58]
• 1816 William Harrison
• 1841? Edward Smirke
• 1908 Robert Ernest Tucker
• 1940 Sir Clive Burn
• 1954 Brian Stopford
• 1972 Joseph Frederick Burrell
• 1976 Henry Boyd-Carpenter^[59]
• 1994 James Furber^[38]

Cornwall Herald

• 1398-?: John Hilton, Harper^[60]

Chief Commissioner

• Francis Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford^[61]

Havener (Keeper of the Havenary (Ports) of Cornwall and the Port of Plymouth, Devon (1337–1617)

• 1337 Thomas FitzHenry
• 1373 Walter Bray
• 1376 Thomas Asshenden
• 1377–88 Richard Hampton
• 1386–95 John Slegh
• 1388–91 John Maudelyn
• 1391–5 William Skelton
• 1395 John Knyveton
• 1395 Thomas Galy
• 1397 Edward, Duke of Aumerle
• 1399 John Norbury
• 1404–7 John Snede
• 1411 John Clink
• 1415 Thomas Chaucer
• 1426 Robert Treage
• 1427 John Lawhier
• 1431 Thomas Treffry
• 1432 Thomas Est
• 1454 John Delabere
• 1455 Thomas Bodulgate (Joint)
• 1455 Geoffrey Kidwelly (Joint)
• 1461 Thomas Clemens (Joint)
• 1461 Richard Edgcumbe (Joint)
• 1461 Geoffrey Kidwelly (Joint)
• 1461 Nicholas Loure
• 1471 Sir Thomas Vaughan
• 1472 William Richmond
• 1477 Richard Holton
• 1483 Sir James Tyrell
• 1485 Robert Walshe
• 1486 John Monkeley
• ? Benedict Killegrew
• 1502 Thomas Elyot
• 1515 John Thomas
• 1516? Henry Pennage
• 1517 John Amodas
• 1549? William Reskymer
• 1552 Henry Killegrew
• 1553 John Cliff
• 1578? Peter Killigrew
• 1601? Joseph Killegrew
• 1616? Sir John Killigrew
• 1626? Robert Longdon
• 1617 William Roscarrock
• Thomas Gewen
• Sir William Morrice
• Sir William Morice, 1st Baronet^[62]

Feodary (Escheator) in Cornwall and Devon (1403–1632)

• 1403 John Haweley Jnr
• 1437 Michael Power
• 1451 Edward Ellesmere
• 1460 Avery Cornburgh
• 1473 Sir John Fogge and John Fogge (son)
• 1484 Thomas Sapcotes
• 1485 Sir Richard Edgcumbe
• 1489 Peter Edgcumbe
• 1502 Sir Peter Edgcumbe (joint)
• 1502–6 Roger Holland (joint)
• 1539 Sir Hugh Trevanyon
• 1551 Hugh Trevanyon
• 1565–6 Richard Strode
• 1574 Edward Trevanyon
• 1576 Henry Carye
• 1581? William Killigrew
• 1604 Richard Billing
• 1607 John Sorrell
• 1626? Robert Langdon
• 1632? Stephen Smyth
• ? Henry Carew

President of the Council

• Albert, Prince Consort

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Bibliography

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