List of lord-lieutenants in the United Kingdom
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Lord-lieutenants are appointed in England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
Lord-lieutenants
[edit]| Lieutenancy area | Name | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Aberdeenshire | Sandy Manson | 20 March 2020 |
| Angus | Patricia Ann Sawers | 25 August 2019 |
| Antrim | David McCorkell[1] | 29 June 2019 |
| Argyll and Bute | Jane Margaret MacLeod | 14 July 2020[2] |
| Armagh | Nicholas Alexander, 7th Earl of Caledon | 15 May 1989 |
| Ayrshire and Arran | Iona McDonald | 26 October 2017 |
| Banffshire | Andrew Simpson | 4 August 2019 |
| Bedfordshire | Susan Lousanda | 6 September 2022 |
| Belfast | Dame Fionnuala Jay-O'Boyle | 2014 |
| Berkshire | Andrew Try | 24 October 2023 |
| Berwickshire | Jeanna Swan | 25 April 2014 |
| Bristol | Lois Patricia (Peaches) Golding | 24 April 2017 |
| Buckinghamshire | Elizabeth Curzon, Countess Howe[3] | 26 June 2020 |
| Caithness | John Thurso, Viscount Thurso | 17 August 2017 |
| Cambridgeshire | Julie Spence[4] | 4 April 2017 |
| Cheshire | Alexis (Lady) Redmond | 25 August 2021[5] |
| Clackmannanshire | Lieutenant Colonel Johnny Stewart | 5 June 2014 |
| Clwyd | Harry Fetherstonhaugh | 17 January 2013 |
| Cornwall | Colonel Sir Edward Bolitho | 19 September 2011 |
| Cumbria | (Francis) Alexander Scott | 6 July 2023[6] |
| Derbyshire | Elizabeth Fothergill | July 2020 |
| Devon | David Fursdon | 17 April 2015[7] |
| Dorset | Angus Campbell | 2014 |
| Down | Gawn Rowan Hamilton | 26 September 2021 |
| Dumfries | Fiona Armstrong, Lady MacGregor | 2016 |
| Dunbartonshire | Jill Williamina Young | 12 August 2020 |
| Dundee[8] | Bill Campbell | 2022 |
| Durham | Susan Snowdon | 8 March 2013 |
| Dyfed | Sara Edwards | 7 February 2016 |
| East Lothian | Roderick Urquhart | 15 March 2021[9] |
| East Riding of Yorkshire | James Dick | 25 June 2019 |
| East Sussex | Andrew Blackman | 18 August 2021 |
| Edinburgh[10] | Robert Aldridge, Lord Provost of Edinburgh | 2022 |
| Essex | Jennifer Tolhurst | 5 August 2017 |
| Fermanagh | Alan Brooke, 3rd Viscount Brookeborough | 9 July 2012 |
| Fife | Robert William Balfour | 22 January 2015 |
| Glasgow[11] | Jacqueline McLaren | 19 May 2022 |
| Gloucestershire | Edward Gillespie | 28 October 2018 |
| Greater London | Sir Ken Olisa | 29 May 2015 |
| Greater Manchester | Diane Hawkins | 04 July 2022 |
| Gwent | Brigadier Robert Aitken | 24 March 2016 |
| Gwynedd | Edmund Seymour Bailey | 16 April 2014 |
| Hampshire | Nigel Atkinson | September 2014 |
| Herefordshire | Edward Harley | 15 April 2020 |
| Hertfordshire | Robert Voss[12] | 4 August 2017 |
| Inverness | James Wotherspoon | 4 August 2021 |
| Isle of Wight | Susan Sheldon | 25 March 2019 |
| Kent | Lady Annabel Colgrain | 21 April 2020 |
| Kincardineshire | Alastair Macphie | 1 October 2020 |
| Kirkcudbright | Matthew Murray Kennedy St Clair, 18th Lord Sinclair | 29 July 2021 |
| Lanarkshire | Lady Haughey | 13 November 2017 |
| Lancashire | Amanda Parker[13] | 2 August 2023 |
| Leicestershire | Mike Kapur | 14 June 2018 |
| Lincolnshire | Toby Dennis | 23 February 2015 |
| City of London[14] | Nicholas Lyons | 11 November 2022 |
| City of Londonderry | Ian Crowe | 12 January 2023 |
| County Londonderry | Alison Millar | 12 June 2018 |
| Merseyside | Mark Blundell | 13 September 2017 |
| Mid Glamorgan | Peter Vaughan | 17 April 2019 |
| Midlothian | Lt. Col. Richard Callander | 3 April 2020 |
| Moray | Major General Seymour Monro | 2020 |
| Nairn | George Russell Asher | 19 January 2018 |
| Norfolk | Lady Dannatt | 28 May 2019 |
| Northamptonshire | James Saunders Watson | 30 March 2020 |
| Northumberland | Jane Percy, Duchess of Northumberland | 12 May 2009 |
| North Yorkshire | Johanna Ropner[15] | 6 November 2018 |
| Nottinghamshire[16] | Sir John Peace | 21 July 2012 |
| Orkney | Elaine Grieve | 29 January 2020 |
| Oxfordshire | Marjorie Glasgow | 1 October 2021 |
| Perth and Kinross | Gordon Kenneth Stephen Leckie | 23 July 2019 |
| Powys | Tia C Jones | 10 September 2018 |
| Renfrewshire | Colonel Peter McCarthy | 13 March 2019 |
| Ross and Cromarty | Joanie Aileen Whiteford | 29 May 2019 |
| Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale | Richard Scott, 10th Duke of Buccleuch | 28 December 2016 |
| Rutland | Sarah Furness | 3 April 2018 |
| Shropshire | Anna Turner | 3 January 2019 |
| Shetland | Robert Hunter | December 2011 |
| Somerset | Mohammed Saddiq | 29 October 2022 |
| South Glamorgan | Morfudd Meredith | 5 July 2016 |
| South Yorkshire | Dame Hilary Chapman | November 2021 |
| Staffordshire | Ian Dudson[17] | 29 March 2012 |
| Stirling and Falkirk | Alan Simpson | 28 February 2017 |
| Suffolk | Clare FitzRoy, Countess of Euston[18] | 13 December 2014 |
| Surrey | Michael More-Molyneux | 23 August 2015[19] |
| Sutherland | Major General Patrick Marriott | 1 August 2022 |
| Tweeddale | Prof. Sir Hew Strachan | 20 May 2014 |
| Tyne and Wear | Lucy Winskell | 21 February 2022 |
| Tyrone | Robert Lowry Scott | 5 July 2009 |
| Warwickshire | Timothy Cox | 2 April 2013 |
| Western Isles | Iain Macaulay | 8 March 2022 |
| West Glamorgan | Roberta Louise Fleet[20] | 16 March 2020[21] |
| West Lothian | Moira Niven | 20 September 2017 |
| West Midlands | Dr Derrick Bancroft Anderson, CBE[22] | 6 August 2024[23] |
| West Sussex | Dame Susan Pyper | 2008 |
| West Yorkshire | Edmund Anderson | 3 September 2018 |
| Wigtown | Aileen Brewis | 20 February 2020 |
| Wiltshire | Sarah Rose Troughton | February 2012 |
| Worcestershire | Beatrice Grant | 17 March 2023 |
See also
[edit]- Lord Lieutenant
- Deputy Lieutenant
- Ceremonial counties of England
- Lieutenancy areas of Scotland
- Preserved counties of Wales
- Lists of Lord Lieutenancies
- List of French prefects (in French)
Notes
[edit]- ^ "Lord-Lieutenant for County Antrim: 24 June 2019".
- ^ "Lord-Lieutenant for Argyll and Bute: 14 July 2020". gov.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
- ^ "Lord-Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire: 26 June 2020". gov.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
- ^ "Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire: Julie Spence". gov.uk. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street. 1 March 2017. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
- ^ "Her Majesty's Lord- Lieutenant of Cheshire". The Cheshire Lieutenancy. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
- ^ "No. 64111". The London Gazette. 11 July 2023. p. 13702.
- ^ "Lord-Lieutenant for Devon: David Fursdon". gov.uk.
- ^ The Lord Provost of Dundee is the leader of the City of Dundee local authority in Scotland. They are elected by the city council and serve not only as the chair of that body, but as a figurehead and Lord Lieutenant for the city.
- ^ "Appointment of Her Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant for East Lothian: 1 February 2021". GOV.UK. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- ^ The Lord Provost of Edinburgh is ex officio the Lord-Lieutenant of Edinburgh.
- ^ The Lord Provost of the City of Glasgow, by virtue of office, is Lord Lieutenant of the County of the City of Glasgow.
- ^ "Lord-Lieutenant of Hertfordshire: Robert Voss - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
- ^ "Appointment of Lord-Lieutenant of Lancashire – GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. 4 April 2023.
- ^ The City of London is unique in that the post of Lord-Lieutenant is held in commission. The Lord Mayor of the City of London is the head of the Commission of Lieutenancy.
- ^ "New Lord-Lieutenant of North Yorkshire appointed". Gazette & Herald. 13 November 2018. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
- ^ "Peace, John: Brief Biography". Reuters. Retrieved 30 October 2012.
- ^ "Video Interview with Ian Dudson on his role, the history of the position and the regalia". jamedia = 22 July 2019. Archived from the original on 13 December 2021.
- ^ "Lord-Lieutenant for Suffolk: Clare, Countess of Euston". gov.uk.
- ^ "Lord-Lieutenant for Surrey: Michael More-Molyneux".
- ^ "Louise Fleet appointed Lord-Lieutenant for West Glamorgan". gov.uk. 10 February 2020. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
- ^ "H.M. Lord Lieutenant of West Glamorgan". H.M. Lord Lieutenant of West Glamorgan. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
- ^ "Appointment of the Lord-Lieutenant of the West Midlands". 10 Downing Street. 1 May 2024. Retrieved 12 August 2024.
- ^ "No. 64483". The London Gazette. 9 August 2024. p. 15390.