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Recorder of Nottingham

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ16931663 ↗
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The recorder of Nottingham is the highest appointed legal officer of the Crown within the Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire County areas of England.

Judge Gregory Dickinson KC was appointed Recorder of Nottingham in 2016.

List of recorders of Nottingham

Sir Thomas Babington 1492 - 1519

Radus Barton

Richard Parkyns

Henry Pierrepont appointed 1603

Wills Fletcher

John Holles, 2nd Earl of Clare appointed 1642

Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester 1666 - (d. 1680)

Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1688 -

William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire 1690 - (d.

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This entry incorporates text from “Recorder of Nottingham” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.