This is a list of people who served as

Lord Lieutenant A lord-lieutenant ( ) is the British monarch's personal representative in each lieutenancy area of the United Kingdom. Historically, each lieutenant was responsible for organising the county's militia. In 1871, the lieutenant's responsibility ...

Huntingdonshire Huntingdonshire (; abbreviated Hunts) is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire and a historic county of England. The district council is based in Huntingdon. Other towns include St Ives, Godmanchester, St Neots and Ramsey. The popul ...

. Huntingdonshire became part of

Huntingdon and Peterborough Huntingdon and Peterborough was a short-lived administrative and geographical county in East Anglia in the United Kingdom. It existed from 1965 to 1974, when it became part of Cambridgeshire. Formation The Local Government Act 1888 created fo ...

in 1965; see

Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdon and Peterborough This is a list of those people who served as Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdon and Peterborough in England during that county's short existence from 1965. The office was preceded by that of the Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdonshire, also taking part of t ...

. From 1672 until 1965, all Lords Lieutenant were also

Custos Rotulorum of Huntingdonshire This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum (Keeper of the Rolls) of Huntingdonshire. * Sir Richard Cromwell bef. 1544 * William Cooke 1544–1553 * Sir Robert Tyrwhitt bef. 1558 – bef. 1562 * William Lawrence bef. 1562 ...

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William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton, Earl of Essex, 1st Baron Parr, 1st Baron Hart (14 August 151328 October 1571), was the only brother of Queen Catherine Parr, the sixth and final wife of King Henry VIII. He was a "sincere, plain, di ...

, 1549 – *

Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, KG, KB (c. 153514 December 1595) was an English Puritan nobleman. Educated alongside the future Edward VI, he was briefly imprisoned by Mary I, and later considered by some as a potential successor to E ...

in 1581 * John St John, 2nd Baron St John of Bletso 8 April 1588 – 23 October 1596 * Oliver St John, 3rd Baron St John of Bletso 1 April 1597 – October 1618 *

Oliver St John, 4th Baron St John of Bletso Oliver St John, 1st Earl of Bolingbroke, Order of the Bath, KB (1580? – June/July 1646), known from 1618 until 1624 as 4th Baron St John of Bletso, was an English nobleman and politician. Life St John was son and heir of Oliver St John, 3 ...

14 March 1619 – 21 July 1627 ''jointly with'' *

Esmé Stewart, 3rd Duke of Lennox Esmé Stewart, 3rd Duke of Lennox (157930 July 1624), KG, 7th Seigneur d'Aubigny, lord of the Manor of Cobham, Kent, was a Scottish nobleman and through their paternal lines was a second cousin of King James VI of Scotland and I of England. He ...

14 March 1619 – 30 July 1624 ''and'' *

Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester (7 November 1642) was an English judge, politician and peer. Life He was the 3rd son of Edward Montagu of Boughton and grandson of Sir Edward Montagu, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench from 1539 to ...

18 October 1624 – 1642 ''jointly with'' *

5 February 1629 – 25 August 1636 *''Interregnum'' *

Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, KG, KB, FRS (16025 May 1671) was an important commander of Parliamentary forces in the First English Civil War, and for a time Oliver Cromwell's superior. Early life He was the eldest son of Henry Mo ...

26 September 1660 – 7 May 1671 ''jointly with'' *

Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, Order of the Garter, KG Privy Council of England, PC Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS Justice of the Peace, JP (27 July 162528 May 1672) was an English military officer, politician and diplomat, who fought f ...

26 September 1660 – 28 May 1672 *

Robert Montagu, 3rd Earl of Manchester Robert Montagu, 3rd Earl of Manchester JP (baptised 25 April 1634 – 14 March 1683) was an English courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1671 when he inherited the peerage as Earl of Manchester. Early life Mont ...

7 May 1671 – 10 March 1681 *

Robert Bruce, 1st Earl of Ailesbury Robert Bruce, 1st Earl of Ailesbury (later styled Aylesbury) and 2nd Earl of Elgin, PC, FRS (ca. March 1626 – 20 October 1685), was a Scottish politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1663, when he inherited his father's ti ...

10 March 1681 – 20 October 1685 (in the absence of

Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Sandwich Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Sandwich (3 January 1647/48 – 29 November 1688) was an English aristocrat and politician. Early life Montagu was born in Hinchinbrooke, Huntingdonshire, England on 3 January 1647/48. He was a son of the former ...

) *

Thomas Bruce, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury Thomas Bruce, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury (later styled Aylesbury) and 3rd Earl of Elgin (1656 – 16 December 1741), styled Lord Bruce between 1663 and 1685, was an English politician and memoirist. He was the son of Robert Bruce, 2nd Earl of Elgin, ...

10 March 1681 – 8 April 1689 (in the absence of

) * Charles Montagu, 4th Earl of Manchester 8 April 1689 – 20 January 1722 *

Edward Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke Edward Richard Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke (7 July 1692 – 3 October 1722) was a British Army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1713 to 1722. Hinchingbrooke was the eldest son of Edward Montagu, 3rd Earl of Sandwi ...

14 February 1722 – 3 October 1722 *

William Montagu, 2nd Duke of Manchester William Montagu, 2nd Duke of Manchester, KB (April 1700 – 21 October 1739) was the son of Charles Montagu, 1st Duke of Manchester, and his wife, Dodington Greville, daughter of Robert Greville, 4th Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court. He married ...

25 October 1722 – 21 October 1739 *

Robert Montagu, 3rd Duke of Manchester Robert Montagu, 3rd Duke of Manchester ( – 10 May 1762) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1734 until 1739 when he succeeded to the peerage as Duke of Manchester. Early life Montagu was the son of Charles Montagu, 1 ...

6 November 1739 – 10 May 1762 *

George Montagu, 4th Duke of Manchester George Montagu, 4th Duke of Manchester PC (6 April 17372 September 1788) was a British politician and diplomat. Early life He was the son of Robert Montagu, 3rd Duke of Manchester and the former Harriet Dunch. Among his siblings were Lord Cha ...

8 June 1762 – 4 September 1788 *

George Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu George Montagu, Duke of Montagu KG, PC, FRS (26 July 1712 – 23 May 1790)G. E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ir ...

7 May 1789 – 23 May 1790 *

James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (disambiguat ...

3 July 1790 – 14 March 1793 *

William Montagu, 5th Duke of Manchester Colonel William Montagu, 5th Duke of Manchester (21 October 177118 March 1843), styled Viscount Mandeville until 1788, was a British peer, soldier, colonial administrator and politician. He was Governor of Jamaica from 1808 to 1827, and Manch ...

14 March 1793 – 25 September 1841 *

John Montagu, 7th Earl of Sandwich John William Montagu, 7th Earl of Sandwich PC (8 November 1811 – 3 March 1884), styled Viscount Hinchingbrooke from 1814 to 1818, was a British peer and Conservative politician. He served under Lord Derby as Captain of the Honourable Corps of ...

25 September 1841 – 3 March 1884 *

Francis Russell, 9th Duke of Bedford Francis Charles Hastings Russell, 9th Duke of Bedford KG (16 October 1819 – 14 January 1891) was an English politician and agriculturalist. Life Known as Hastings, the 9th Duke was born in Curzon Street, London, the son of Major-General Lo ...

16 April 1884 – 14 January 1891 *

Edward Montagu, 8th Earl of Sandwich Edward George Henry Montagu, 8th Earl of Sandwich KStJ (13 July 1839 – 26 June 1916), styled Viscount Hinchingbrooke until 1884, was a British peer, Conservative politician and author. Montagu was the eldest son of John William Montagu, ...

17 February 1891 – 26 June 1916 *

Howard Coote Howard is an English-language given name originating from Old French Huard (or Houard) from a Germanic source similar to Old High German ''*Hugihard'' "heart-brave", or ''*Hoh-ward'', literally "high defender; chief guardian". It is also proba ...

6 September 1916 – 17 July 1922 *

George Charles Montagu, 9th Earl of Sandwich George Charles Montagu, 9th Earl of Sandwich (29 December 1874 – 15 June 1962), known as George Montagu until 1916, was a British Conservative politician. Sandwich was the son of Rear-Admiral the Hon. Victor Alexander Montagu, second son of ...

17 July 1922 – 28 January 1946 *

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28 January 1946 – 9 March 1947 * Ailwyn Fellowes, 3rd Baron de Ramsey 30 July 1947 – 1965

Deputy lieutenants

A deputy lieutenant of Huntingdonshire is commissioned by the Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdonshire. Deputy lieutenants support the work of the lord-lieutenant. There can be several deputy lieutenants at any time, depending on the population of the county. Their appointment does not terminate with the changing of the lord-lieutenant, but they usually retire at age 75.

19th Century

*2 July 1803: Sir James Duberley,

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