Vice-Admiral of Durham
Encyclopedia
This is a list of people who have served as Vice-Admiral
of Durham
.
Vice-Admiral of the Coast
The holder of the post Vice-Admiral of the Coast was responsible for the defence of one of the twenty maritime counties of England, the North and South of Wales, or the four provinces of Ireland....
of Durham
County Durham
County Durham is a ceremonial county and unitary district in north east England. The county town is Durham. The largest settlement in the ceremonial county is the town of Darlington...
.
- 1559: Reginald Beseley
- 1559–63: Vacant
- 1563: William Eure, 2nd Baron Eure
- 1563–1568: Vacant
- 1568: Valentine Browne
- 1568–1575: Vacant
- 1575–1596: Henry Carey, 1st Baron HunsdonHenry Carey, 1st Baron HunsdonHenry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon, of Hunsdon was an English nobleman.He was the son of Mary Boleyn, the sister of Anne Boleyn and also the mistress to King Henry VIII of England...
- 1596 Richard Mompesson
- 1596–1611: Vacant
- 1611–1640: Theophilus Howard, Lord HowardTheophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of SuffolkTheophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, KG was an English nobleman and politician.Born at the family estate of Saffron Walden, he was the son of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk, by his second wife Catherine Knyvet of Charlton, and succeeded his father in 1626.Sir Theophilus Howard was named in...
(Earl of Suffolk from 1626) - 1640: Sir John Delaval
- 1640–1652: Vacant
- 1652: John FenwickJohn FenwickSir John Fenwick, 3rd Baronet was an English Jacobite conspirator, who succeeded to the Baronetcy of Fenwick on the death of his father in 1676....
- 1652–1660: Vacant
- 1661–1685: Charles Howard, 1st Earl of CarlisleCharles Howard, 1st Earl of CarlisleCharles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle was an English politician and military leader.The first in the Howard line of earls, he was the son and heir of Sir William Howard, of Naworth in Cumberland, by Mary, daughter of William, Lord Eure, and great-grandson of Lord William Howard, "Belted Will" , the...
(and for Cumberland, Northumberland and Westmorland) - 1685–1687: Vacant
- 1687–1689: John Sheffield, 3rd Earl of MulgraveJohn Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and NormanbyJohn Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, KG, PC , was a poet and notable Tory politician of the late Stuart period, who served as Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the Council.-Career:...
(and for Northumberland and Yorkshire) - 1689–1702: Richard Lumley, 1st Viscount LumleyRichard Lumley, 1st Earl of ScarbroughRichard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough was an English soldier and statesman best known for his role in the Glorious Revolution.-Origins:...
(Earl of Scarbrough from 1690) (and for Northumberland) - 1702–1710: Nathaniel Crew, 3rd Baron CrewNathaniel Crew, 3rd Baron CrewNathanial Crew, 3rd Baron Crew was Bishop of Oxford from 1671 to 1674, then Bishop of Durham from 1674 to 1721. As such he was one of the longest serving bishops of the Church of England....
- 1710: Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of ScarbroughRichard Lumley, 1st Earl of ScarbroughRichard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough was an English soldier and statesman best known for his role in the Glorious Revolution.-Origins:...
- 1710–1740: Richard Lumley, Viscount LumleyRichard Lumley, 2nd Earl of ScarbroughRichard Lumley, 2nd Earl of Scarbrough, KG, PC was a British, Whig politician, known as Lord Lumley from 1710-21....
(Earl of Scarbrough from 1721) - 1740–1755: Vacant
- 1755–1758: Henry Vane, 1st Earl of DarlingtonHenry Vane, 1st Earl of DarlingtonHenry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington PC was an English peer, the son of Gilbert Vane, 2nd Baron Barnard.On 2 September 1725, he married Lady Grace Fitzroy, daughter of Charles Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Southampton and they had seven children.Vane was Whig MP for Launceston from 1726 to 1727, St Mawes...
- 1758–1795: Vacant
- 1795–1842: William Vane, 3rd Earl of DarlingtonWilliam Vane, 1st Duke of ClevelandWilliam Henry Vane, 1st Duke of Cleveland, KG was a British peer.He was born in 1766, the son of the 2nd Earl of Darlington, and was baptised at the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace...
(Marquess of Cleveland 1827–1833, Duke of Cleveland from 1833) - 1842–1854: Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry