This is an incomplete list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of

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Custos Rotulorum of Somerset This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of Somerset. * Sir William Portman bef. 1554–1557 * Sir Hugh Paulet bef. 1558–1573 * Sir Amias Paulet bef. 1577–1588 * Sir John Popham bef. 1594–1607 * Sir E ...

Lord Lieutenants of Somerset

John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford (c. 1485 – 14 March 1555) was an English royal minister in the Tudor era. He served variously as Lord High Admiral and Lord Privy Seal. Among the lands and property he was given by Henry VIII after the D ...

1552–1555 * William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke 12 May 1559 – 17 March 1570 *''vacant'' *

Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, KG, KB (in or after 153819 January 1601) was a Welsh nobleman, peer and politician of the Elizabethan era. He was the nephew of Catherine Parr, and brother-in-law of Lady Jane Grey, through his first wif ...

3 July 1585 – 19 January 1601 *

Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford, 1st Baron Beauchamp, KG (22 May 1539 – 6 April 1621), of Wulfhall and Totnam Lodge in Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, of Hatch Beauchamp in Somerset, of Netley Abbey, Hampshire, and of Hertford House, Cannon R ...

24 April 1601 – 6 April 1621 *

William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke (8 April 158010 April 1630) , of Wilton House in Wiltshire, was an English nobleman, politician and courtier. He served as Chancellor of the University of Oxford and together with King James I founded P ...

14 April 1621 – 10 April 1630 *

Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke and 1st Earl of Montgomery, (10 October 158423 January 1650) was an English courtier, nobleman, and politician active during the reigns of James I and Charles I. Philip and his older brother William w ...

12 August 1630 – 30 July 1640 ''jointly with'' * William Seymour, 1st Marquess of Hertford 26 March 1639 – 1642 ''jointly with'' * Philip Herbert, Lord Herbert 30 July 1640 – 1642 *

William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford KG PC (August 1616 – 7 September 1700) was an English nobleman and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 until 1641 when he inherited his Peerage as 5th Earl of Bedford and removed to th ...

25 March 1642 – 23 August 1643 (Parliamentarian) *''Interregnum'' *

William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset, (158824 October 1660) was an English nobleman and Royalist commander in the English Civil War. Origins Seymour was the son of Edward Seymour, Lord Beauchamp (who predeceased his own father) by his wife ...

13 August 1660 – 24 October 1660 * James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde 22 December 1660 – 22 August 1672 *

John Seymour, 4th Duke of Somerset John Seymour, 4th Duke of Somerset and 3rd Marquess of Hertford (before 164629 April 1675) was an English peer and MP. He was the only surviving son of William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset, and Lady Frances Devereux. In 1656, he married Sarah ...

22 August 1672 – 29 April 1675 * Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Winchilsea 4 June 1675 – 16 July 1683 *

Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset (13 August 16622 December 1748), known by the epithet "The Proud Duke", was an English peer. He rebuilt Petworth House in Sussex, the ancient Percy seat inherited from his wife, in the palatial form which ...

16 July 1683 – 11 August 1687 * Henry Waldegrave, 1st Baron Waldegrave 11 August 1687 – 6 November 1688 * Ralph Stawell, 1st Baron Stawell 6 November 1688 – 1689 * Maurice Berkeley, 3rd Viscount Fitzhardinge 13 April 1689 – 13 June 1690 * Thomas Osborne, 1st Marquess of Carmarthen 24 June 1690 – 3 February 1691 ''jointly with'' * William Cavendish, 4th Earl of Devonshire 24 June 1690 – 3 February 1691 ''and'' *

Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset and 1st Earl of Middlesex, KG (24 January 164329 January 1706) was an English poet and courtier. Early life Sackville was born on 24 January 1643, son of Richard Sackville, 5th Earl of Dorset (1622–1677 ...

24 June 1690 – 3 February 1691 *

James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde James FitzJames Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, (1665–1745) was an Irish statesman and soldier. He was the third of the Kilcash branch of the family to inherit the earldom of Ormond. Like his grandfather, the 1st Duke, he was raised as a Protes ...

3 February 1691 – 3 December 1714 * Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery 3 December 1714 – 1 October 1715 * George Dodington 1 October 1715 – 28 March 1720 * George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe 20 June 1720 – 17 February 1744 * John Poulett, 2nd Earl Poulett 17 February 1744 – 5 November 1764 *

Percy Wyndham-O'Brien, 1st Earl of Thomond Percy Wyndham-O'Brien, 1st Earl of Thomond (c. 1713–1774) was a British Member of Parliament and an Irish peer. Origins He was the younger of the two sons of Tory statesman Sir William Wyndham, 3rd Baronet (c.1688–1740) of Orchard Wyndham, ...

27 November 1764 – 16 March 1774 * Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford 16 March 1774 – 5 August 1792 * John Poulett, 4th Earl Poulett 15 November 1792 – 14 January 1819 *

Thomas Thynne, 2nd Marquess of Bath Thomas Thynne, 2nd Marquess of Bath KG (25 January 1765 – 27 March 1837), styled Viscount Weymouth from 1789 until 1796, was a British peer. Life Early life Thynne was the eldest son of Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquess of Bath, and Lady Eliza ...

23 February 1819 – 27 March 1837 * Henry Fox-Strangways, 3rd Earl of Ilchester 28 April 1837 – 1 June 1839 * Edward Portman, 1st Viscount Portman 1 June 1839 – 28 June 1864 * Richard Boyle, 9th Earl of Cork 28 June 1864 – 22 June 1904 *

Thomas Thynne, 5th Marquess of Bath Thomas Henry Thynne, 5th Marquess of Bath (15 July 1862 – 9 June 1946), styled Viscount Weymouth until 1896, was a British landowner and Conservative politician. He held ministerial office as Under-Secretary of State for India in 1905 an ...

1904 – 9 June 1946 * Sir James Somerville 1946 – 19 March 1949 *

William Jolliffe, 4th Baron Hylton William George Hervey Jolliffe, 4th Baron Hylton (2 December 1898 – 14 November 1967), was a British peer and soldier. Hylton was the son of Hylton Jolliffe, 3rd Baron Hylton, and Lady Alice Adeliza Hervey. He achieved the rank of Lieu ...

10 August 1949 – 14 November 1967 * Cecil Townley Mitford-Slade 17 April 1968 – 1978 * Sir Walter Luttrell 3 May 1978 – 10 November 1994 * Sir John Wills, 4th Baronet 10 November 1994 – 26 August 1998 * Elizabeth Gass, Lady Gass 12 February 1999 – 2 March 2015 * Anne Maw 2 March 2015 – 29 October 2022 *

Mohammed Saddiq Mohammed Habedat Saddiq is Lord-lieutenant of Somerset. A utilities-sector engineer and manager he was born in Leeds, Yorkshire in June 1970 after his parents came to England in the late 1960s from Pakistan. Career He has held management and en ...

29 October 2022 – present

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