Lord_Lieutenant_of_Somerset
This is an incomplete list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Somerset. Since 1714, all Lord Lieutenants have also been Custos Rotulorum of Somerset.
- John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford 1552–1555
- William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke 12 May 1559 – 17 March 1570
- vacant
- Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke 3 July 1585 – 19 January 1601
- Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford 24 April 1601 – 6 April 1621
- William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke 14 April 1621 – 10 April 1630
- Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke 12 August 1630 – 30 July 1640 jointly with
- William Seymour, 1st Marquess of Hertford 26 March 1639 – 1642 jointly with
- Philip Herbert, Lord Herbert 30 July 1640 – 1642
- William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford 25 March 1642 – 23 August 1643 (Parliamentarian)
- Interregnum
- William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset 13 August 1660 – 24 October 1660
- James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde 22 December 1660 – 22 August 1672
- John Seymour, 4th Duke of Somerset 22 August 1672 – 29 April 1675
- Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Winchilsea 4 June 1675 – 16 July 1683
- Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset 16 July 1683 – 11 August 1687
- Henry Waldegrave, 1st Baron Waldegrave 11 August 1687 – 6 November 1688
- Ralph Stawell, 1st Baron Stawell 6 November 1688 – 1689[1][2]
- Maurice Berkeley, 3rd Viscount Fitzhardinge 13 April 1689 – 13 June 1690
- Thomas Osborne, 1st Marquess of Carmarthen 24 June 1690 – 3 February 1691 jointly with
- William Cavendish, 4th Earl of Devonshire 24 June 1690 – 3 February 1691 and
- Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset 24 June 1690 – 3 February 1691
- James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde 3 February 1691 – 3 December 1714
- Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery 3 December 1714 – 1 October 1715
- George Dodington 1 October 1715 – 28 March 1720
- George Dodington, 1st Baron Melcombe 20 June 1720 – 17 February 1744
- John Poulett, 2nd Earl Poulett 17 February 1744 – 5 November 1764
- Percy Wyndham-O'Brien, 1st Earl of Thomond 27 November 1764 – 16 March 1774
- Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford 16 March 1774 – 5 August 1792
- John Poulett, 4th Earl Poulett 15 November 1792 – 14 January 1819
- Thomas Thynne, 2nd Marquess of Bath 23 February 1819 – 27 March 1837
- Henry Fox-Strangways, 3rd Earl of Ilchester 28 April 1837 – 1 June 1839
- Edward Portman, 1st Viscount Portman 1 June 1839 – 28 June 1864
- Richard Boyle, 9th Earl of Cork 28 June 1864 – 22 June 1904
- Thomas Thynne, 5th Marquess of Bath 1904 – 9 June 1946
- Sir James Somerville 1946 – 19 March 1949
- William Jolliffe, 4th Baron Hylton 10 August 1949 – 14 November 1967
- Cecil Townley Mitford-Slade 17 April 1968 – 1978
- Sir Walter Luttrell 3 May 1978 – 10 November 1994[3]
- Sir John Wills, 4th Baronet 10 November 1994 – 26 August 1998[4]
- Elizabeth Gass, Lady Gass 12 February 1999 – 2 March 2015[5]
- Anne Maw 2 March 2015 – 29 October 2022[6]
- Mohammed Saddiq 29 October 2022 – present[7]
- J.C. Sainty (1970). "Lieutenancies of Counties, 1585–1642". Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research (Special Supplement No. 8): 31.
- J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660–1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
- Dunning, Robert (1983). A History of Somerset. Chichester: Phillimore & Co. pp. 108–109. ISBN 0-85033-461-6.
- Sir George Floyd Duckett, Penal laws and Test act: questions touching their repeal propounded in 1687–8 by James II (Printed by T. Wilson, 1882), pp. 389, 415
- London Gazette, issue no.47525, 5 May 1978
- London Gazette, issue no.53849, 15 November 1994
- London Gazette, issue no.55408, 19 February 1999
- "Anne Maw appointed as Lord-Lieutenant for Somerset". Somerset County Gazette. 26 February 2015. Retrieved 4 March 2015.