Chancellor

• 1610?–1612?: Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet
  Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet
  Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet SL , of Blickling Hall, was an English judge and politician.The son of Thomas Hobart and Audrey Hare, and Great grandson of Sir James Hobart of Monks Eleigh, Suffolk, who served as Attorney General during the reign of King Henry VII.Sir Henry would further this lineal...
  
  
• 1616?–1617: Sir Francis Bacon
  Francis Bacon
  Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Albans, KC was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author and pioneer of the scientific method. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England...
  
  
• 1617–?: Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet
  Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet
  Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet SL , of Blickling Hall, was an English judge and politician.The son of Thomas Hobart and Audrey Hare, and Great grandson of Sir James Hobart of Monks Eleigh, Suffolk, who served as Attorney General during the reign of King Henry VII.Sir Henry would further this lineal...
  
  

• 1729–1740: Alexander Denton
• 1740–1751: Sir Thomas Bootle
• vacant
• 1802–1806: Thomas Erskine
  Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine
  Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine KT PC KC was a British lawyer and politician. He served as Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom between 1806 and 1807 in the Ministry of All the Talents.-Background and childhood:...
  
  
• 1806–1815: William Adam
  William Adam (MP)
  William Adam, KC was a Scottish Member of Parliament in the British Parliament and subsequently a Judge.-Biography:...
  
  
• 1816–1818?: John Leach
  John Leach (Judge)
  Sir John Leach, KC was an English judge.-Life:The son of Richard Leach, a coppersmith of Bedford, he was born in that town on 28 Augusr 1760. After leaving Bedford grammar school he became a pupil of Sir Robert Taylor the architect...
  
  
• vacant?
• 1843–1867?: Thomas Pemberton Leigh
  Thomas Pemberton Leigh, 1st Baron Kingsdown
  Thomas Pemberton Leigh, 1st Baron Kingsdown , was a British barrister, judge and politician.-Background:Born Thomas Pemberton, in London, Leigh was the eldest son of Thomas Pemberton, a chancery barrister....
  
  

Keeper of the Privy Seal

• 1846?–1852: Sir William Gibson-Craig, Bt
• 1852–1853: Marquess of Chandos
  Richard Temple-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
  Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos GCSI, PC , styled Earl Temple until 1839 and Marquess of Chandos from 1839 to 1861, was a British soldier, politician and administrator of the 19th century...
  
  
• 1853–1855: Lord Alfred Hervey
  Lord Alfred Hervey
  Lord Alfred Hervey , known before 1826 as Alfred Hervey, was a minor British politician. He was the youngest son of Frederick Hervey, 1st Marquess of Bristol. He was a Junior Lord of the Treasury in Lord Aberdeen's coalition government and Lord Palmerston's first government.Lord Alfred was one of...
  
  
• 1855–1858: The Viscount Monck
• 1858–1858: Henry Brand
  Henry Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden
  Henry Bouverie William Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden GCB, PC , was a British Liberal politician. He served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1872 to 1884.-Background and education:...
  
  
• 1858–1859: Henry Whitmore
  Henry Whitmore
  Henry Whitmore was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1852 and 1870.Whitmore was the son of Thomas Whitmore of Apley Park near Bridgnorth and his wife Catherine Thomasson, daughter of Thomas Thomasson of York. His father was M.P. for Bridgnorth from 1806 to...
  
  
• 1859–1863: Sir William Alexander, Bt
  Sir William Alexander, 3rd Baronet
  Sir William John Alexander, 3rd Baronet QC was a British lawyer.He was the elder son of Sir Robert Alexander, 2nd Baronet and his wife Elisa Wallis, daughter of John Wallis. In 1859, he succeeded his father as baronet...
  
  
• 1863–1865: Sir William Dunbar, Bt
• 1865–1870: Herbert William Fisher
  Herbert William Fisher
  Herbert William Fisher was a British historian, best known for his book Considerations on the Origin of the American War ....
  
  
• 1870–1901: The Earl of Leicester
  Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester
  Thomas William Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester KG , known as Viscount Coke from 1837 to 1842, was a British peer....
  
  
• 1901–1906: The Earl Spencer
  John Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer
  John Poyntz Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer KG, PC , known as Viscount Althorp from 1845 to 1857 , was a British Liberal Party politician under and close friend of British prime minister William Ewart Gladstone...
  
  
• 1907–1913: The Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
  William Edgcumbe, 4th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
  William Henry Edgcumbe, 4th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe GCVO, PC , styled Viscount Valletort between 1839 and 1861, was a British courtier and Conservative politician.-Background:...
  
  
• 1913–1933: The Lord Clinton
  Charles Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 21st Baron Clinton
  Charles John Robert Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 21st Baron Clinton, GCVO, PC was a British peer.Trefusis was the eldest son of the 20th Baron Clinton and his wife, Harriet. On 1 June 1886, he married his third cousin Lady Jane McDonnell and they had two daughters:*Hon...
  
  
• see Lord Warden of the Stannaries
  Lord Warden of the Stannaries
  The Lord Warden of the Stannaries used to exercise judicial and military functions in Cornwall, United Kingdom, and is still the official who, upon the commission of the monarch or Duke of Cornwall for the time being, has the function of calling a Stannary Parliament of tinners...
  
   since 1933

Receiver-General

• 1533–1550?: Sir Thomas Arundell
• 1640s to 1649; 1663 to bef. 1686: Robert Napier of Punknoll
• 1715–1720: Edward Eliot
• bef. 1740–1748?: Richard Eliot
• 1751–1804: Edward Craggs-Eliot, 1st Baron Eliot
  Edward Craggs-Eliot, 1st Baron Eliot
  Edward Craggs-Eliot, 1st Baron Eliot was born to Richard Eliot and Harriot Craggs , the illegitimate daughter of the Privy Counsellor and Secretary of State, James Craggs and Hester Santlow, the noted...
  
  
• 1804–1807: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan was an Irish-born playwright and poet and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. For thirty-two years he was also a Whig Member of the British House of Commons for Stafford , Westminster and Ilchester...
  
  
• 1807–1808: The Viscount Lake
  Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake
  General Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake was a British general. He commanded British forces during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and later served as Commander-in-Chief of the military in British India.-Background:...
  
  
• 1808–1816: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan was an Irish-born playwright and poet and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. For thirty-two years he was also a Whig Member of the British House of Commons for Stafford , Westminster and Ilchester...
  
  
• 1816–1817: Sir John McMahon, 1st Baronet
• 1817–1823: Lord William Gordon
• 1823–1830?: Sir William Knighton, Bt
• 1830?–1849: Sir Henry Wheatley, Bt
  Henry Wheatley
  Major-General Sir Henry Wheatley, Baronet , Royal Guelphic Order, Companion in the Most Honorable Order of the Bath was the Keeper of the Privy Purse for King William the Fourth and Queen Victoria from 1830 to 1846....
  
  
• abolished, then revived
• 1862–1866: Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps
  Charles Beaumont Phipps
  Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps , was a British soldier and courtier.He was the second son of Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave, and was born at the family estate of Mulgrave Castle in 1801. Educated at Harrow, Phipps joined the army by purchasing a commission as an ensign and lieutenant in the Scots...
  
  
• 1866–1878: Sir Thomas Myddleton-Biddulph
• 1878–1883: Sir William Thomas Knollys
  William Thomas Knollys
  General Sir William Thomas Knollys KCB was a British Army General who reached high office in the 1860s.-Military career:...
  
  
• 1883–1888: Sir John Rose, Bt
• 1888–1908: Sir Robert Kingscote
  Robert Kingscote
  Colonel Sir Robert Nigel Fitzhardinge Kingscote GCVO, KCB, JP , was a British soldier, Liberal politician, courtier and agriculturalist.-Biography:...
  
  
• 1908–1929: The Lord Revelstoke
  John Baring, 2nd Baron Revelstoke
  John Baring, 2nd Baron Revelstoke PC , was senior partner of Barings Bank from the 1890s until his death. John was the eldest surviving son of Edward Baring, 1st Baron Revelstoke, and a great-grandson of the firm’s founder, Sir Francis Baring.-Career at Barings:At the age of twenty, John left...
  
  
• 1929–1936: Sir Edward Peacock
  Edward Robert Peacock
  Sir Edward Robert Peacock, GCVO was a Canadian merchant banker, born in St. Elmo, Glengarry County, Ontario. He is perhaps best known as a director of the Bank of England, or for his role as Receiver General to the Duchy of Cornwall.-Early life:...
  
  

• 1961–1973: The Lord Ashburton
  Alexander Baring, 6th Baron Ashburton
  Alexander Francis St Vincent Baring, 6th Baron Ashburton KG, KCVO, KStJ, DL was a British businessman and politician.-Sources:* http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/people/mr-alexander-baring...
  
  
• 1974–1990: The Hon. Sir John Baring
  John Baring, 7th Baron Ashburton
  John Francis Harcourt Baring, 7th Baron Ashburton, is a British merchant banker and former chairman of British Petroleum...
  
   (later Lord Ashburton)
• 1990–2000: The Earl Cairns
  Simon Cairns, 6th Earl Cairns
  Simon Dallas Cairns CVO CBE is the 6th Earl Cairns, having succeeded to the title on the death of his father David Cairns, 5th Earl Cairns on 21 March 1989....
  
  
• 2000–present: The Hon. James Leigh-Pemberton
  James Leigh-Pemberton
  James Henry Leigh-Pemberton is a British banker and the incumbent Receiver-General for the Duchy of Cornwall.The son of former Governor of the Bank of England and life-peer Lord Kingsdown, James Leigh-Pemberton was educated at Eton and started his career at S. G. Warburg & Co.before becoming a...
  
  

Attorney-General

• 1601–1603: Hannibal Vivian
• 1603–1613: Thomas Stephens
• 1613–?: Sir John Walter
• 1634–?: Sir Richard Lane
• 1643–1648?: Sir Robert Holborne
  Robert Holborne
  Sir Robert Holborne was an English lawyer and politician, of Furnival's Inn and Lincoln's Inn . He acted as counsel for John Hampden in the ship-money case. He sat in the House of Commons between 1640 and 1642 and supported the Royalist[ cause in the English Civil War...
  
  
• ?–1698: Francis Buller
• 1698–1714: Francis Pengelly
• 1714–1727: Spencer Cowper
  Spencer Cowper
  Spencer Cowper, MP and barrister was born in 1670, the second son of Sir William Cowper, 2nd Baronet of Hertford, and his wife, Lady Sarah Cowper, the diarist, and the daughter of Samuel Holled, a London merchant...
  
  
• 1728–1730: William Lee
• 1730–1736: William Fortescue
  William Fortescue
  Sir William Fortescue, KC, PC was a British judge. He was the son of Henry Fortescue and his wife Agnes, and a descendant of the noted lawyer John Fortescue. Fortescue was educated at Barnstaple Grammar School and matriculated to Trinity College, Oxford in 1705...
  
  
• 1736–1748: Robert Pauncefort
• 1748–1754: Henry Bathurst
  Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst
  Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst PC, KC , known as the Lord Apsley from 1771 to 1775, was a British lawyer and politician. He was Lord Chancellor of Great Britain from 1771 to 1778.-Background and education:...
  
  
• 1754–1756: Robert Henley
  Robert Henley, 1st Earl of Northington
  Robert Henley, 1st Earl of Northington PC , was the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. He was a member of the Whig Party in the parliament and was known for his wit and writing.-Family:...
  
   (later Earl of Northington)
• 1756–1757: Charles Pratt
  Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden
  Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden was an English lawyer, judge and Whig politician who was first to hold the title of Earl of Camden...
  
   (later Earl Camden)

• 1783–1793: Thomas Erskine
  Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine
  Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine KT PC KC was a British lawyer and politician. He served as Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom between 1806 and 1807 in the Ministry of All the Talents.-Background and childhood:...
  
   (later Lord Erskine)
• 1793–1800: Robert Graham
• 1800–1805: Vicary Gibbs
  Vicary Gibbs
  Sir Vicary Gibbs, KC was an English judge and politician. He was known for his caustic wit, which won for him the sobriquet of "Vinegar Gibbs".-Early life and education :...
  
  
• 1805–1806: William Adam
  William Adam (MP)
  William Adam, KC was a Scottish Member of Parliament in the British Parliament and subsequently a Judge.-Biography:...
  
  
• 1806–1812: William Garrow
  William Garrow
  Sir William Garrow KC, PC, FRS was a British barrister, politician and judge known for his indirect reform of the advocacy system, which helped usher in the adversarial court system used in most common law nations today...
  
  
• 1812–1815: Joseph Jekyll
• 1816–1818: William Draper Best
• 1819–1820: Charles Warren
• vacant?
• 1841–1843: Thomas Pemberton
  Thomas Pemberton Leigh, 1st Baron Kingsdown
  Thomas Pemberton Leigh, 1st Baron Kingsdown , was a British barrister, judge and politician.-Background:Born Thomas Pemberton, in London, Leigh was the eldest son of Thomas Pemberton, a chancery barrister....
  
   (later Lord Kingsdown)
• 1843–1852: The Hon. John Chetwynd-Talbot
• 1852–1863: Sir Edward Smirke
  Edward Smirke
  -Life:The third son of Robert Smirke, and brother of Sir Robert Smirke, and of Sydney Smirke, he was born at Marylebone. He was educated privately and at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1816, and M.A. in 1820...
  
  
• 1863–1873: Sir William Alexander, Bt
  Sir William Alexander, 3rd Baronet
  Sir William John Alexander, 3rd Baronet QC was a British lawyer.He was the elder son of Sir Robert Alexander, 2nd Baronet and his wife Elisa Wallis, daughter of John Wallis. In 1859, he succeeded his father as baronet...
  
  
• 1873–1877: George Loch
  George Loch
  George Loch was a Scottish Liberal Party politician. He was elected as the Member of Parliament for Wick at the 1868 general election, but resigned his seat on 6 February 1872 by becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead....
  
  
• 1877–1877: Alfred Henry Thesiger
  Alfred Henry Thesiger
  The Hon. Alfred Henry Thesiger PC, QC, LJ , was a British lawyer and judge.-Early life:Thesiger was the third son of Lord Chancellor Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford, by his wife Anna Maria .-Career:...
  
  
• 1877–1892: Sir Charles Hall
• 1892–1895: Sir Henry James
  Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford
  Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford GCVO, PC, QC , known as Sir Henry James between 1873 and 1895, was an Anglo-Welsh lawyer and statesman. Initially a Liberal, he served under William Ewart Gladstone as Solicitor General in 1873 and as Attorney-General between 1873 and 1874 and 1880 and 1885...
  
   (later Lord James of Hereford)
• 1895–1914: Charles Cripps
  Charles Cripps, 1st Baron Parmoor
  Charles Alfred Cripps, 1st Baron Parmoor KCVO, PC, QC was a British politician who crossed the floor from the Conservative to the Labour Party and was a strong supporter of the League of Nations and of Church of England causes....
  
   (later Lord Parmoor)
• 1914–1915: George Cave
  George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave
  George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave GCMG, KC, PC was a British lawyer and Conservative politician. He was Home Secretary under David Lloyd George from 1916 to 1919 and served as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain from 1922 to 1924 and again from 1924 to 1928.-Background and education:Cave was born in...
  
   (later Lord Cave)
• 1915–1916: Henry Duke
  Henry Duke, 1st Baron Merrivale
  Henry Edward Duke, 1st Baron Merrivale PC, QC , was a British judge and Conservative politician. He served as Chief Secretary for Ireland between 1916 and 1918.-Background and education:...
  
   (later Lord Merrivale)

• 1920–1922: Sir Douglas Hogg
  Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham
  Douglas McGarel Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham PC was a British lawyer and Conservative politician.-Background:...
  
   (later Viscount Hailsham)
• 1923–1928: Anthony Hawke
• 1928–1932: Geoffrey Lawrence
  Geoffrey Lawrence, 1st Baron Oaksey
  Geoffrey Lawrence, 3rd Baron Trevethin, 1st Baron Oaksey, DSO, TD, KC, PC was the main British Judge during the Nuremberg trials after World War II, and President of the Judicial group.-Early life:...
  
   (later Lord Trevethin and Oaksey)
• 1932–1951: Walter Monckton
  Walter Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
  Walter Turner Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, GCVO, KCMG, MC, PC was a British politician.-Early years:...
  
   (later Lord Monckton of Brenchley)
• 1951–1960: Charles Russell
  Charles Ritchie Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen
  Charles Ritchie Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen PC, , was a British judge and law lord.The son of the Lord Russell of Killowen, Russell was Lord Justice of Appeal from 1962 to 1975, having been made also a Privy Councillor in 1962.On 30 September 1975, he was appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary...
  
   (later Lord Russell of Killowen)
• 1960–1969: Sir Joseph Molony
• 1969–1977: Anthony Lloyd
  Anthony Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Berwick
  Anthony John Leslie Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Berwick PC is a retired British judge, and member of the House of Lords.He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He became a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and was raised to the House of Lords with the title Baron Lloyd of Berwick, of...
  
  
• 1978–1988: Andrew Morritt
  Andrew Morritt
  Sir Robert Andrew Morritt CVO is a British judge, currently the Chancellor of the High Court.He attended Magdalene College, Cambridge....
  
  
• 1988–1994: Robert Carnwath
  Robert Carnwath
  Sir Robert John Anderson Carnwath CVO is a British judge.Carnwath was called to the Bar at Middle Temple in 1968. He practised in parliamentary law, planning and local government, revenue law and administrative law. He held the appointment of Junior Counsel to the Inland Revenue from 1980 to...
  
  
• 1994–1997: Sir Jeremy Sullivan
  Jeremy Sullivan
  Sir Jeremy Mirth Sullivan PC has been a Lord Justice of Appeal since 2009.He was educated at Framlingham College and King's College London and was called to the Bar at Inner Temple in 1968 where he became a bencher in 1993.By 1976 Sullivan was Counsel for the Department of Environment's M25...
  
  
• 1998–2006: Nicholas Underhill
• 2006–present: Jonathan Crow

Surveyor-General

• 1747–1751: The Lord Baltimore
  Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore
  Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, 3rd Proprietor and 17th Proprietary Governor of Maryland, FRS was a British nobleman and Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland...
  
  
• 1751–1796?: Edward Bayntun-Rolt
• 1796?–?: Sir John Morshead, Bt

• 1808–1829: Benjamin Tucker

• 1833–1849: Philip Sidney, 1st Baron De L'Isle and Dudley
  Philip Sidney, 1st Baron De L'Isle and Dudley
  Philip Charles Shelley Sidney, 1st Baron De L'Isle and Dudley GCH was a British Tory politician.Sidney was the only son of Sir John Shelley-Sidney, 1st Baronet and Henrietta Hunloke. The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was his cousin. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford...
  
  
• 1849–?: James Robert Gardiner

Keeper of the Records

• 1843–1849: James Robert Gardiner
• ?–1873: Joshua Wigley Bateman
• 1873–1886: George Wilmshurst
• 1886–1908: Sir Maurice Holzmann
• 1908–1930?: Walter Peacock

• 1936–1954: Sir Clive Burn

• ?–1972: Sir Patrick Kingsley
• 1972–1981: Francis Anthony Gray
• 1981–1986: John Walter Yeoman Higgs
• 1987–1993: Sir David Landale
• 1993–1997: Sir John James
• 1997–present: Bertie Ross

Auditor

• 1661–1692: William Harbord
  William Harbord (politician)
  William Harbord , of Grafton Park, was an English politician and diplomat.-Life:Harbord was the second son of Sir Charles Harbord of Charing Cross, who had been surveyor-general to Charles I...
  
  
• 1692–1704: Philip Bertie
  Philip Bertie
  Philip Bertie was an English courtier and politician, the third son of Robert Bertie, 3rd Earl of Lindsey.Bertie was educated at Trinity College, Oxford, from which he took a BA in 1685, and trained a company of volunteers of foot from among the Oxford scholars to support James II during the...
  
  
• 1704–1713: Albemarle Bertie
• 1738–1749: Charles Montagu
• 1749–1751: Robert Andrews
• 1751–1767: William Trevanion
• 1768–1770: Richard Hussey
• 1770–1783: John Buller
• 1783–1791: Henry Lyte
• 1791–1796: John Willett Payne
  John Willett Payne
  Rear-Admiral John Willett Payne was a senior, veteran officer of the British Navy who also served as a close friend, advisor and courtier to Prince George before and during his first regency...
  
  
• 1796–1803: Thomas Tyrwhitt
  Thomas Tyrwhitt (MP)
  Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt was Member of Parliament for Okehampton.-Career:Educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford and after serving as private secretary to the Prince of Wales, Tyrwhitt was elected Member of Parliament for Okehampton in 1796...
  
  
• 1803–1816: Sir John McMahon, Bt
• 1816–1817: Sir Benjamin Bloomfield
  Benjamin Bloomfield, 1st Baron Bloomfield
  Lieutenant-General Benjamin Bloomfield, 1st Baron Bloomfield GCB GCH was Private Secretary to the Sovereign 1817–1822....
  
  
• 1817–1823: Sir William Knighton, Bt
• 1823–1841: George Harrison
  George Harrison (civil servant)
  Sir George Harrison, FRS, GCH was an English barrister and civil servant. During a tenure of twenty-one years at the Treasury, he presided over the growth of a professional civil service and an increasing transfer of power from political appointees to administrators.-Biography:An able young...
  
  
• 1843–1851: Edward White
• 1851–1891: Sir William Anderson
• 1891–1916: Lesley Probyn
• 1916–?: Laurence Halsey

• 1957–?: Edmund Parker

• 1971–1993: Jeffery Bowman

Solicitor-General

• 1714–1715: John Fortescue Aland
• 1715–1717: Laurence Carter
• 1717–1726: Charles Talbot
• 1726–1727?: John Finch
• 1729–1730: William Fortescue
  William Fortescue
  Sir William Fortescue, KC, PC was a British judge. He was the son of Henry Fortescue and his wife Agnes, and a descendant of the noted lawyer John Fortescue. Fortescue was educated at Barnstaple Grammar School and matriculated to Trinity College, Oxford in 1705...
  
  
• 1730–1736: Robert Pauncefort
• 1736–1741: Richard Hollings
• 1741–1746: Alexander Hume Campbell
  Alexander Hume Campbell
  The Honourable Alexander Hume-Campbell KC , was a Scottish nobleman and politician.The son of Alexander Hume-Campbell, 2nd Earl of Marchmont, he entered parliament in 1734 for Berwickshire at the same time as his twin brother Lord Polwarth was elected for Berwick-upon-Tweed...
  
  
• 1746–1748: Henry Bathurst
  Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst
  Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst PC, KC , known as the Lord Apsley from 1771 to 1775, was a British lawyer and politician. He was Lord Chancellor of Great Britain from 1771 to 1778.-Background and education:...
  
  
• 1748–1751: Paul Joddrell
• 1751–1754: Robert Henley
  Robert Henley, 1st Earl of Northington
  Robert Henley, 1st Earl of Northington PC , was the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. He was a member of the Whig Party in the parliament and was known for his wit and writing.-Family:...
  
  
• 1754–1756: Charles Yorke
  Charles Yorke
  Charles Yorke was Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.-Life:The second son of Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, he was born in London, and was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. His literary abilities were shown at an early age by his collaboration with his brother Philip in the...
  
  

• 1783–1792: Sir Arthur Leary Piggott
• 1793–1795: John Anstruther
• 1795–1800: Vicary Gibbs
  Vicary Gibbs
  Sir Vicary Gibbs, KC was an English judge and politician. He was known for his caustic wit, which won for him the sobriquet of "Vinegar Gibbs".-Early life and education :...
  
  
• 1800–1802: Thomas Manners-Sutton
  Thomas Manners-Sutton, 1st Baron Manners
  Thomas Manners-Sutton, 1st Baron Manners PC, KC , was a British lawyer and politician who served as Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1807 to 1827.-Background and education:...
  
  
• 1802–1805: William Adam
  William Adam (MP)
  William Adam, KC was a Scottish Member of Parliament in the British Parliament and subsequently a Judge.-Biography:...
  
  
• 1805–1812: Joseph Jekyll
  Joseph Jekyll
  Sir Joseph Jekyll KS was a British barrister, politician and judge. Born to John Jekyll, he initially attended a seminary before joining the Middle Temple in 1680. Thanks to his association with Lord Somers Jekyll advanced rapidly, becoming Chief Justice of Chester in 1697 and a King's Serjeant in...
  
  
• 1812–1813: Samuel Shepherd
  Samuel Shepherd
  Sir Samuel Shepherd KS PC was a British barrister, judge and politician who served as Attorney General for England and Wales and Lord Chief Baron of the Scottish Court of Exchequer...
  
  
• 1813–1816: William Draper Best
• 1816–1820?: William Harrison
• vacant
• 1841?–1852: Edward Smirke
  Edward Smirke
  -Life:The third son of Robert Smirke, and brother of Sir Robert Smirke, and of Sydney Smirke, he was born at Marylebone. He was educated privately and at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1816, and M.A. in 1820...
  
  

• 1908–1940: Robert Ernest Tucker
• 1940–1954: Sir Clive Burn
• 1954–1972: Brian Stopford
• 1972–1976: Joseph Frederick Burrell
• 1976–1994: Henry Boyd-Carpenter
  Henry Boyd-Carpenter
  Sir Henry Boyd-Carpenter, KCVO is a son of Francis Henry Boyd-Carpenter by his wife Nina ....
  
  
• 1994–present: James Furber