Custos Rotulorum of County Londonderry and Down
The Custos Rotulorum of Londonderry and Down was the highest civil officer in counties Londonderry and Down.
Incumbents
Londonderry
- 1663–1665 John Clotworthy, 1st Viscount Massereene[1]
- 1666–1695 John Skeffington, 2nd Viscount Massereene (attainted 1689, reappointed 1693, died 1695) [2]
Down
- 1660–1663 Hugh Montgomery, 1st Earl of Mount Alexander
- 1663–? William Montgomery (died 1706) [3]
- 1678–1683 Michael Hill (died 1693) [4] (also Custos Rotulorum of Antrim 1678-?)
- 1683–? Hugh Montgomery, 2nd Earl of Mount Alexander[5]
- ?1693–?1699 Michael Hill (died 1699)[6]
- 1729–1742 Trevor Hill, 1st Viscount Hillsborough (died 1742) [7]
- 1742–1793 Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire[8]
- 1793–?1801 Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire (died 1801)
Londonderry and Down
- 1803–?1821 Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry[9]
- 1821–1822 Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh[10]
- 1822–?1854 Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry (died 1854) [10]
For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Londonderry and Lord Lieutenant of Down
References
- ^ "Foster/Massereene Papers" (PDF). Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
- ^ "Foster Massereene Papers" (PDF). Records Office of Northern Ireland. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
- ^ "The Hamilton Manuscripts". JSTOR 20608754.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|url=(help) - ^ Collins, Arthur. The Peerage of England. p. 415.
- ^ Bergin, John (October 2009). "Montgomery, Hugh". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
- ^ Collins, Arthur. The peerage of England. p. 456.
- ^ Collins, Arthur. The peerage of England. p. 457.
- ^ The English peerage, Volume 1. p. 408.
- ^ Debrett, John. The Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland. p. 982.
- ^ a b Urquhart, Diane. The Ladies of Londonderry: Women and Political Patronage. p. 28.
