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List of lord chancellors and lord keepers

List of lord chancellors and lord keepers

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The following is a list of lord chancellors and lord keepers of the Great Seal of England and Great Britain. It also includes a list of commissioners of Parliament's Great Seal during the English Civil War and Interregnum.

Lord chancellors and lord keepers of England, 1050–1707

11th century

12th century

13th century

14th century

15th century

1500–1654

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The Great Seal was captured and destroyed by Parliament on 11 August 1646.

Commissioners of Parliament's Great Seal 1643–1660

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From the Restoration (1660) to the Act of Union (1707)

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Lord high chancellors and lord keepers of Great Britain (1707–present)

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Notes

    1. Not Lord Chancellor as such, but exercised those functions as regent until she appointed William of Kilkenny; only woman to do so until Liz Truss was appointed in 2016.
    2. A former Speaker of the House of Commons.
    3. Lord Keeper of the Great Seal
    4. Lord Keeper of the Great Seal until 7 April 1713.
    5. Lord Keeper of the Great Seal until 16 January 1761.
    6. The Prince of Wales served as prince regent from 5 February 1811.
    7. Charles Yorke, who had been associated with the opposition, was persuaded to accept appointment as Lord Chancellor and was to have been created Baron Morden. However on meeting with his erstwhile opposition colleagues he became ashamed of his action. He refused to sign the patent conferring the peerage on himself and then committed suicide.
    8. A former Lord High Chancellor of Ireland.
    9. First non-peer to serve as Lord Chancellor since Robert Henley as Lord Keeper of the Seal in 1760.
    10. First woman to hold the office, and first to exercise its functions since Eleanor of Provence in 1254.

    References

    1. [1]
      "Swearing In of the Lord Chancellor" (PDF). The Right Hon. The Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. 21 July 2016. Retrieved 18 April 2022.
    2. [2]
      Cook and Wroughton, English Historical Facts, 1603–1688, pp. 8–9
    3. [3]
      Geoffrey Treasure, ‘Cowper, William, first Earl Cowper (1665–1723)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, January 2009 accessed 27 March 2009
    4. [4]
      "Dominic Raab resigns over bullying report". BBC News. 21 April 2023. Retrieved 21 April 2023.

    Sources

    • John Haydn and Horace Ockerby, The Book of Dignities, third edition, W.H. Allen and Co. Ltd, London 1894, reprinted Firecrest Publishing Limited, Bath 1969, p. 352–358
    • John Lord Campbell (1845) Lives of the Lords Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England. 5th ed. (1868) London: Murray, vol. 10
    • Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
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