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 John Clotworthy, 1st Viscount Massereene (died September 1665) was a prominent Anglo-Irish politician. Origins He was the son and heir of Sir Hugh Clotworthy (died 1630), High Sheriff of Antrim (who first came to Ireland as a soldier in the Nin ...

* 1666–1695

John Skeffington, 2nd Viscount Massereene John Skeffington, 2nd Viscount Massereene (December 1632 – 21 June 1695) was an Anglo-Irish politician, official, and peer. He was one of the leading Presbyterians in Ireland during his lifetime. Early life and family Skeffington was the son of ...

(attainted 1689, reappointed 1693, died 1695)

Down

* 1660–1663

Hugh Montgomery, 1st Earl of Mount Alexander Hugh Montgomery, 1st Earl of Mount Alexander (c. 1623 – 15 September 1663), known as The Viscount Montgomery from 1642 to 1661, was an Irish peer. He was appointed to command his father's regiment in 1642. He was commander-in-chief of the Royalis ...

* 1663–? William Montgomery (died 1706) * 1678–1683 Michael Hill (died 1693) (also Custos Rotulorum of Antrim 1678-?) * 1683–?

Hugh Montgomery, 2nd Earl of Mount Alexander Hugh Montgomery, 2nd Earl of Mount Alexander (24 February 1651 – 12 February 1717) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and peer. Montgomery was the son of Hugh Montgomery, 1st Earl of Mount Alexander and his first wife, Mary, daughter of Charles Moore, ...

* ?1693–?1699 Michael Hill (died 1699) * 1729–1742

Trevor Hill, 1st Viscount Hillsborough Trevor Hill, 1st Viscount Hillsborough (1693 – 5 May 1742) was an Anglo-Irish landowner and politician who sat in the Irish House of Commons from 1713 to 1715 and in the British House of Commons from 1715 to 1722. Hill was the eldest son of ...

(died 1742) *1742–1793

Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, (30 May 1718 – 7 October 1793), known as The 2nd Viscount Hillsborough from 1742 to 1751 and as The 1st Earl of Hillsborough from 1751 to 1789, was a British politician of the Georgian era. Best know ...

*1793–?1801 Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire (died 1801)

Londonderry and Down

* 1803–?1821

Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry PC (Ire) (1739–1821), was a County Down landowner, Irish Volunteer, and member of the parliament who, exceptionally for an Ulster Scot and Presbyterian, rose within the ranks of Ireland's "Angli ...

* 1821–1822

Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, (18 June 1769 – 12 August 1822), usually known as Lord Castlereagh, derived from the courtesy title Viscount Castlereagh ( ) by which he was styled from 1796 to 1821, was an Anglo-Irish politician ...

* 1822–?1854 Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry (died 1854) For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Londonderry and Lord Lieutenant of Down

References

{{Custodes Rotulorum Londonderry