Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire

This is a list of people who served as Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire.

List of Lord Lieutenants

Lord Lieutenant	Portrait	Birth	Death
Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon 1586–1595		1536 Ashby-de-la-Zouch[1] son of Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon and Katherine Pole	14 December 1595 York aged 59
Thomas Cecil, 2nd Baron Burghley 1599–1603		5 May 1542 Cambridge son of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley and Mary Cheke	8 February 1623 London aged 81
Edmund Sheffield, 3rd Baron Sheffield 1603–1619		7 December 1565 Oxford son of John Sheffield, 2nd Baron Sheffield of Butterwick and Douglas Howard	20 October 1646 aged 83
Emanuel Scrope, 1st Earl of Sunderland 1619–1628		1 August 1584 Hunsdon son of Thomas Scrope, 10th Baron Scrope of Bolton and Philadelphia Carey	30 May 1630 aged 46
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford 1628–1641		13 April 1593 London son of William Wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse and Anne Atkins	12 May 1641 Tower Hill aged 48
Thomas Savile, 1st Viscount Savile 1641		14 September 1591	1658 aged 67
Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex 1641–1642		11 January 1591 son of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex and Frances Walsingham	14 September 1646 aged 55

From 1642 until 1660 the position was vacant, however after the Restoration, a separate lieutenant was appointed for each of the three ridings; see Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire, Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire and Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire.

References

1. Cross, Claire. "Hastings, Henry, third earl of Huntingdon". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/12574. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

• J.C. Sainty (1970). "Lieutenancies of Counties, 1585–1642". Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research (Special Supplement No. 8).