Custos Rotulorum of the North Riding of Yorkshire
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This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of the North Riding of Yorkshire.
Sir Leonard Beckwith bef. 1544 – aft. 1547
Sir Henry Gates bef. 1562–1589
John Stanhope, 1st Baron Stanhope 1545–1621
Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby 1621–1626
Sir David Foulis, 1st Baronet 1626–1629
Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby 1629–1640
Henry Belasyse 1641–1646
Interregnum
Thomas Belasyse, 1st Earl Fauconberg 1660–1700
Charles Boyle, 2nd Earl of Burlington 1701–1704
Henry Boyle, 1st Baron Carleton 1704–1715
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington 1715–1722
Conyers Darcy 1722
Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington 1722–1733
Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham 1733–1750
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham 1751–1762
Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness 1762–1765
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham 1765–1782
Henry Belasyse, 2nd Earl Fauconberg 1782–1802
For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire.
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