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The Lord Warden of the Stannaries used to exercise judicial and military functions in Cornwall
Cornwall

Cornwall , constitutional Duchy and palatine, is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain....
, United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 and is still the official who, upon the commission of the monarch
British monarchy

The Monarchy of the United Kingdom is the constitutional monarchy of the United Kingdom and its British overseas territory.The present monarch, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, has reigned since 6 February 1952....
 or Duke of Cornwall
Duke of Cornwall

The Dukedom of Cornwall was the first dukedom created in the peerage of England.The present Duke of Cornwall is Charles, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, the reigning British monarch ....
 for the time being, has the function of calling a Stannary Parliament
Stannary Courts and Parliaments

The Stannary Parliaments and Stannary Courts were legislative and legal institutions in Cornwall and in West Devon , England. The Stannary Courts administered Equity for the region's tin-miners and tin mining interests, and they were also Court of record for the towns dependent on the mines....
 of tinners.






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The Lord Warden of the Stannaries used to exercise judicial and military functions in Cornwall
Cornwall

Cornwall , constitutional Duchy and palatine, is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain....
, United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 and is still the official who, upon the commission of the monarch
British monarchy

The Monarchy of the United Kingdom is the constitutional monarchy of the United Kingdom and its British overseas territory.The present monarch, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, has reigned since 6 February 1952....
 or Duke of Cornwall
Duke of Cornwall

The Dukedom of Cornwall was the first dukedom created in the peerage of England.The present Duke of Cornwall is Charles, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, the reigning British monarch ....
 for the time being, has the function of calling a Stannary Parliament
Stannary Courts and Parliaments

The Stannary Parliaments and Stannary Courts were legislative and legal institutions in Cornwall and in West Devon , England. The Stannary Courts administered Equity for the region's tin-miners and tin mining interests, and they were also Court of record for the towns dependent on the mines....
 of tinners. The last Stannary Parliament convened by a Lord Warden of the Stannaries sat in 1753.

The first Lord Warden of the Stannaries of Cornwall (and Devon) was William de Wrotham who was appointed during the reign of Richard I
Richard I of England

Richard I was King of England from 6 July 1189 until his death in 1199. He also ruled as Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Gascony, Lord of Ireland, Cyprus, Count of Anjou, Count of Nantes and Brittany at various times during the same period....
 on 20 November 1197.

In theory, were the current Duke of Cornwall, Prince Charles
Charles, Prince of Wales

The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales is the eldest child of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, making him heir apparent, equally and separately, to the thrones of Commonwealth realm....
, to appoint a Lord Warden of the Stannaries, a Stannary Parliament could be convened, which could veto United Kingdom legislation. This is because a Stannator's right to veto Westminster legislation has never been formally withdrawn. In 1977, the Plaid Cymru
Plaid Cymru

Plaid Cymru is a political party in Wales. It advocates the establishment of an independent Welsh state within the European Union.Plaid Cymru was formed in 1925 and won its first seat in 1966....
 MP Dafydd Wigley in Parliament asked the Attorney General for England
England

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 and Wales
Wales

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 if he would provide the date upon which enactments of the Charter of Pardon of 1508 were rescinded. The reply, received on 14 May 1977, stated that the Stannators' right to veto Westminster legislation had never been formally withdrawn.

In 1997, the Liberal Democrat
Liberal Democrats

The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems or just Lib Dem, are a Liberalism political party in the United Kingdom, formed in 1988 by merging the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party ; the two parties had been SDP-Liberal Alliance for seven years, from shortly after the formation of the SDP....
 Andrew George MP attempted to raise a Duchy-related question, but he was prevented by an injunction that disallows MPs raising any questions in Parliament that are in any way related to the Duchy.

Even today, the Duchy charters, which turned all of Cornwall
Cornwall

Cornwall , constitutional Duchy and palatine, is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain....
 into a Duchy
Duchy

A duchy is a territory, fiefdom, or domain ruled by a duke or duchess.Some duchies were sovereignty in areas that would become unified realms only during the Modern era ....
, are still law, and it is still common for many Cornish to refer to Cornwall as a Duchy.

List of the Lord Wardens of the Stannaries

  • 1197–?: William de Wrotham


  • 1215–?: Henry FitzCount


  • 1413–1422: John Wilcotes


  • 1523–1538: Henry Courtenay, 1st Marquess of Exeter
    Henry Courtenay, 1st Marquess of Exeter

    Henry Courtenay, 1st Marquess of Exeter, Order of the Garter, Privy Council of England was the eldest son of William Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon and Catherine of York....
  • 1539–1554: John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford
    John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford

    John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford, Order of the Garter, Privy Council of England, Justice of the Peace was an English royal minister in the later Tudor dynasty era....
  • 1553–1580: Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford
    Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford

    Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford Knight of the Garter , was an English nobleman, soldier and politician....


  • 1585–1603: Sir Walter Raleigh
    Walter Raleigh

    Sir Walter Raleigh or Ralegh, was a famed English writer, poet, soldier, courtier and explorer.Raleigh was born to a Protestant family in Devon, the son of Walter Raleigh and Catherine Champernowne....
  • 1604–1630: William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke
    William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke

    William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, Order of the Garter, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was the son of Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke and his third wife Mary Sidney....
  • 1630–1642: Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke
    Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke

    Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, 1st Earl of Montgomery Order of the Garter was an English courtier and politician active during the reigns of James I of England and Charles I of England....
  • Interregnum
  • 1646–1648: Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Chirbury (Parliamentary)
  • 1660–1701: John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath
    John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath

    John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath Privy Council of England was an England royalist statesman, whose highest position was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland....
  • 1701–1702: Charles Robartes, 2nd Earl of Radnor
  • 1702–1705: John Granville, 1st Baron Granville
  • 1705–1708: Francis Godolphin, Viscount Rialton
    Francis Godolphin, 2nd Earl of Godolphin

    Francis Godolphin, 2nd Earl of Godolphin, Privy Council of Great Britain was a Kingdom of Great Britain politician, styled Viscount Rialton between 1706 and 1712....
  • 1708–1734: Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount Falmouth
    Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount Falmouth

    Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount Falmouth , was a leading Cornish politician of his time in the British Whig Party interest, was the eldest son of Edward Boscawen, by Jael, daughter of Francis Godolphin ....
  • 1734–1737: Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe
    Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe

    Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, Privy Council of Great Britain , was the son of Sir Richard Edgcumbe and Lady Anne Montagu, daughter of the Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich....
  • 1737–1742: vacant
  • 1742–1751: Thomas Pitt of Boconnoc
    Thomas Pitt of Boconnoc

    Thomas Pitt of Boconnoc was the Lord Warden of the Stannaries until 1751, when the Stannary Courts and Parliaments last met. He was the grandson and namesake of the better known Thomas Pitt and elder brother of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham....
    , Esq.
  • 1751–1762: James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave
    James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave

    James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave Order of the Garter, Privy Council of Great Britain, Royal Society was a British statesman.The eldest son of the James Waldegrave, 1st Earl Waldegrave, Waldegrave was educated at Westminster School and Eton College and he inherited his father's titles in 1741....
  • 1763–1783: Humphrey Morice
  • 1783–1798: Viscount Lewisham
    George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth

    George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth, Order of the Garter, Privy Council of Great Britain, Fellow of the Royal Society was the son of William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth....
  • 1798–1800: Sir John Morshead, 1st Baronet
  • 1800–1803: John Willett Payne
    John Willett Payne

    Rear-Admiral John Willett Payne was a senior, veteran officer of the Royal Navy who also served as a close friend, advisor and courtier to George IV of the United Kingdom before and during his first regency....
  • 1803–1812: Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt
  • 1812–1842: Francis Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford
    Francis Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford

    Francis Charles Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford Order of the Garter Royal Guelphic Order Privy Council of the United Kingdom was the son of Francis Seymour-Conway, 2nd Marquess of Hertford....
  • 1842–1861: Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
  • 1862–1864: Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne
    Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne

    Henry Pelham Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, Order of the Garter, Privy Council of the United Kingdom , styled Earl of Lincoln before 1851, was a United Kingdom politician, who eventually rose to the position of Secretary of State for War and the Colonies....
  • 1865–1888: Edward Portman, 1st Viscount Portman
    Edward Portman, 1st Viscount Portman

    Edward Berkeley Portman, 1st Viscount Portman , was a United Kingdom Liberal Party politician.Portman was the son of Edward Berkeley Portman, of Bryanston and Orchard in Dorset, and his wife Lucy, daughter of Reverend Thomas Whitby....
  • 1888–1908: Henry Reynolds-Moreton, 3rd Earl of Ducie
    Henry Reynolds-Moreton, 3rd Earl of Ducie

    Henry John Reynolds-Moreton, 3rd Earl of Ducie, Royal Victorian Order, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a United Kingdom Peerage and briefly a Liberal Party politician, known as Lord Moreton from 1840–53....
  • 1908–1921: Alexander Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh
    Alexander Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh

    Alexander Hugh Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh, Knight of the Thistle, Order of St Michael and St George - was a Scotland Unionist Party politician and statesman....
  • 1921–1933: Charles Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 21st Baron Clinton
    Charles Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 21st Baron Clinton

    Charles John Robert Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 21st Baron Clinton, Royal Victorian Order, Privy Council of the United Kingdom was a United Kingdom Peerage....
  • 1933–1965: William Pleydell-Bouverie, 7th Earl of Radnor
    William Pleydell-Bouverie, 7th Earl of Radnor

    William Pleydell-Bouverie, 7th Earl of Radnor, Order of the Garter, Royal Victorian Order was born on 18 December 1895 and died in 1968. He was the son of Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 6th Earl of Radnor and Julian Eleanor Adelaide Balfour....
  • 1965–1976: Geoffrey Waldegrave, 12th Earl Waldegrave
    Geoffrey Waldegrave, 12th Earl Waldegrave

    Geoffrey Noel Waldegrave, 12th Earl Waldegrave Order of the Garter Royal Victorian Order Territorial Decoration , known as Viscount Chewton from 1933 to 1936, was a British Peerage and agriculturist....
  • 1977–1983: Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian
    Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian

    Peter Francis Walter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian, Royal Victorian Order was a United Kingdom Peerage, Politics of the United Kingdom and landowner....
  • 1985–1990: Sir Nicholas Henderson
    Nicholas Henderson

    Sir John Nicholas Henderson GCMG, Royal Victorian Order is a retired British career diplomat and writer who served as British ambassador to the United States from 1979 to 1982....
  • 1990–1994: John Baring, 7th Baron Ashburton
    John Baring, 7th Baron Ashburton

    John Francis Harcourt Baring, 7th Baron Ashburton, Order of the Garter, Royal Victorian Order, Deputy Lieutenant is a United Kingdom merchant banker and former chairman of BP ....
  • 1994–2006: William Peel, 3rd Earl Peel
    William Peel, 3rd Earl Peel

    William James Robert Peel, 3rd Earl Peel, Royal Victorian Order, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Deputy Lieutenant is a crossbencher member of the House of Lords and Lord Chamberlain of the Royal Household....
  • 2006–present: Sir Nicholas Bacon, 14th Baronet
    Sir Nicholas Bacon, 14th Baronet

    Sir Nicholas Hickman Ponsonby Bacon, 14th and 15th Baronet is the Premier Baronet of England. Sir Nicholas is the son of Edmund Castell Bacon and was educated at Eton College....


See also

  • Cornish independence
  • Revived Cornish Stannary Parliament
    Revived Cornish Stannary Parliament

    The Cornish Stannary Parliament is a pressure group which claims to be a revived Stannary Courts and Parliaments. It was established in 1974 and has campaigned since then against the government of the United Kingdom's position on the constitutional status of Cornwall....
  • Stannary Courts and Parliaments
    Stannary Courts and Parliaments

    The Stannary Parliaments and Stannary Courts were legislative and legal institutions in Cornwall and in West Devon , England. The Stannary Courts administered Equity for the region's tin-miners and tin mining interests, and they were also Court of record for the towns dependent on the mines....
  • Stannary town
  • Duchy of Cornwall
    Duchy of Cornwall

    The Duchy of Cornwall is, with the Duchy of Lancaster, one of the two Royal duchy in the United Kingdom. The eldest son of the reigning Monarchy of the United Kingdom inherits the duchy and title of Duke of Cornwall at the time of his birth ....
  • Cornwall (territorial duchy)
    Cornwall (territorial duchy)

    Cornwall as a territorial Duchy has its roots in 1068 when the Earl of Cornwall was formed and existed until 1336 to maintain a form of independence for Kernow from Wessex ....


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