Lord Lieutenant of Rutland

This is a list of people who have served as Lord-Lieutenant of Rutland. The post was abolished on 31 March 1974, with the area coming under the Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire, but revived in 1997. Since 1690, all Lord Lieutenants have also been Custos Rotulorum of Rutland.

Lord Lieutenants of Rutland until 1974

• Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland 1559–1563
• Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon ? – 14 December 1595
• George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon 2 October 1596 – 30 December 1604
• vacant
• John Harington, 1st Baron Harington of Exton 16 May 1607 – 23 August 1613
• John Harington, 2nd Baron Harington of Exton 8 October 1613 – 27 February 1614
• Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntingdon 1614–1642 jointly with
• Ferdinando Hastings, 6th Earl of Huntingdon 27 December 1638 – 1642
• David Cecil, 3rd Earl of Exeter 5 March 1642 - 1643
• Interregnum
• Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden 9 August 1660 – 29 October 1682
• Edward Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough 17 November 1682 – 23 January 1688 jointly with
• Wriothesley Noel, Viscount Campden 24 March 1685 – 23 January 1688
• Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough 23 January 1688 – 28 August 1690
• Bennet Sherard, 2nd Baron Sherard 28 August 1690 – 15 January 1700
• Bennet Sherard, 3rd Baron Sherard 11 March 1700 – 14 November 1712
• John Cecil, 6th Earl of Exeter 14 November 1712 – 12 September 1715
• Bennet Sherard, 1st Earl of Harborough 12 September 1715 – 16 October 1732
• Philip Sherard, 2nd Earl of Harborough 17 July 1733 – 20 July 1750
• Brownlow Cecil, 9th Earl of Exeter 6 June 1751 – 12 April 1779
• George Finch, 9th Earl of Winchilsea 12 April 1779 – 2 August 1826
• Brownlow Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Exeter 7 October 1826 – 16 January 1867
• Charles Noel, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough 22 February 1867 – 13 August 1881
• William Tollemache, 9th Earl of Dysart 3 November 1881 – 29 March 1906
• John Brocklehurst, 1st Baron Ranksborough 29 March 1906 – 28 February 1921
• Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 2nd Earl of Ancaster 6 January 1921 – 29 September 1951
• William Melville Codrington 5 February 1951 – 29 April 1963
• Thomas Charles Stanley Haywood 12 August 1963 – 31 March 1974 (subsequently Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire)

Lord Lieutenants of Rutland since 1997

• Sir Thomas Lawrie (Jock) Kennedy 1 April 1997 – 14 July 2003
• Laurence Howard 14 July 2003 – present

References

• J.C. Sainty (1970). "Lieutenancies of Counties, 1585–1642". Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research (Special Supplement No. 8).
• J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.