List of lord-lieutenants in the United Kingdom

Lord-lieutenants are appointed in England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

Lord-lieutenants

Lieutenancy area Name Date
Aberdeenshire Sandy Manson 20 March 2020
Angus Patricia Sawers 25 August 2019
Antrim David McCorkell 29 June 2019
Argyll and Bute Jane MacLeod 14 July 2020[1]
Armagh The Earl of Caledon 15 May 1989
Ayrshire and Arran Iona McDonald 26 October 2017
Banffshire Andrew Simpson 4 August 2019
Bedfordshire Susan Lousanda 6 September 2022
Belfast Dame Fionnuala Jay-O'Boyle 6 July 2014
Berkshire Andrew Try 24 October 2023
Berwickshire Jeanna Swan 25 April 2014
Bristol Lois Golding 24 April 2017
Buckinghamshire The Countess Howe[2] 26 June 2020
Caithness The Viscount Thurso 17 August 2017
Cambridgeshire Julie Spence 4 April 2017
Cheshire Lady Redmond 25 August 2021[3]
Clackmannanshire Lieutenant Colonel Johnny Stewart 5 June 2014
Clwyd Harry Fetherstonhaugh 17 January 2013
Cornwall Colonel Sir Edward Bolitho 19 September 2011
Cumbria Alexander Scott 6 July 2023[4]
Derbyshire Elizabeth Fothergill July 2020
Devon David Fursdon 17 April 2015[5]
Dorset Michael Dooley 5 September 2024[6]
Down Gawn Rowan Hamilton 26 September 2021
Dumfries Lady MacGregor 10 February 2016
Dunbartonshire Jill Young 12 August 2020
Dundee[7] Bill Campbell 20 May 2022
Durham Susan Snowdon 8 March 2013
Dyfed Sara Edwards 7 February 2016
East Lothian Roderick Uruquhart 15 March 2021[8]
East Riding of Yorkshire James Dick 25 June 2019
East Sussex Andrew Blackman 18 August 2021
Edinburgh[9] Robert Aldridge 26 May 2022
Essex Jennifer Tolhurst 5 August 2017
Fermanagh The Viscount Brookeborough 9 July 2012
Fife Robert Balfour 22 January 2015
Glasgow[10] Jacqueline McLaren 19 May 2022
Gloucestershire Edward Gillespie 28 October 2018
Greater London Sir Ken Olisa 29 May 2015
Greater Manchester Diane Hawkins 4 July 2022
Gwent Brigadier Robert Aitken 24 March 2016
Gwynedd Edmund Seymour Bailey 16 April 2014
Hampshire Nigel Atkinson 11 September 2014
Herefordshire Edward Harley 15 April 2020
Hertfordshire Robert Voss 4 August 2017
Inverness James Wotherspoon 4 August 2021
Isle of Wight Susan Sheldon 25 March 2019
Kent Lady Annabel Colgrain 21 April 2020
Kincardineshire Alastair Macphie 1 October 2020
Kirkcudbright Lord Sinclair 29 July 2021
Lanarkshire Lady Haughey 13 November 2017
Lancashire Amanda Parker[11] 2 August 2023
Leicestershire Mike Kapur 14 June 2018
Lincolnshire Toby Dennis 23 February 2015
City of London[12] Sir Nicholas Lyons 11 November 2022
City of Londonderry Ian Crowe 12 January 2023
County Londonderry Alison Millar 12 June 2018
Merseyside Mark Blundell 13 September 2017
Mid Glamorgan Peter Vaughan 17 April 2019
Midlothian Lieutenant Colonel Richard Callander 3 April 2020
Moray Major General Seymour Monro 29 January 2020
Nairn George Asher 19 January 2018
Norfolk Lady Dannatt 28 May 2019
Northamptonshire James Saunders Watson 30 March 2020
Northumberland The Duchess of Northumberland 12 May 2009
North Yorkshire Johanna Ropner 6 November 2018
Nottinghamshire[13] Sir John Peace 21 July 2012
Orkney Elaine Grieve 29 January 2020
Oxfordshire Marjorie Glasgow 1 October 2021
Perth and Kinross Gordon Leckie 23 July 2019
Powys Tia Jones 10 September 2018
Renfrewshire Colonel Peter McCarthy 13 March 2019
Ross and Cromarty Joanie Whiteford 29 May 2019
Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensbury 28 December 2016
Rutland Sarah Furness 3 April 2018
Shropshire Anna Turner 3 January 2019
Shetland Lindsay William Tulloch 3 April 2024
Somerset Mohammed Saddiq 29 October 2022
South Glamorgan Morfudd Meredith 5 July 2016
South Yorkshire Dame Hilary Chapman November 2021
Staffordshire Ian Dudson 29 March 2012
Stirling and Falkirk Alan Simpson 28 February 2017
Suffolk The Dowager Countess of Euston 13 December 2014
Surrey Michael More-Molyneux 23 August 2015[14]
Sutherland Major General Patrick Marriott 1 August 2022
Tweeddale Lady of Traquair 20 May 2014
Tyne and Wear Lucy Winskell 21 February 2022
Tyrone Robert Lowry Scott 5 July 2009
Warwickshire Timothy Cox 2 April 2013
Western Isles Iain Macaulay 8 March 2022
West Glamorgan Roberta Fleet 16 March 2020[15]
West Lothian Moira Niven 20 September 2017
West Midlands Dr Derrick Anderson 6 August 2024[16]
West Sussex Lady Emma Barnard 23 May 2022
West Yorkshire Edmund Anderson 3 September 2018
Wigtown Aileen Brewis 20 February 2020
Wiltshire Sarah Troughton February 2012
Worcestershire Beatrice Grant 17 March 2023

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "Lord-Lieutenant for Argyll and Bute: 14 July 2020". gov.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  2. ^ "Lord-Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire: 26 June 2020". gov.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  3. ^ "Her Majesty's Lord- Lieutenant of Cheshire". The Cheshire Lieutenancy. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  4. ^ "No. 64111". The London Gazette. 11 July 2023. p. 13702.
  5. ^ "Lord-Lieutenant for Devon: David Fursdon". gov.uk.
  6. ^ "New Lord-Lieutenant of Dorset appointed". Bournemouth Echo. 17 September 2024. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
  7. ^ The Lord Provost of Dundee is the leader of the City of Dundee local authority in Scotland. They are elected by the city council and serve not only as the chair of that body, but as a figurehead and Lord Lieutenant for the city.
  8. ^ "Appointment of Her Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant for East Lothian: 1 February 2021". GOV.UK. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  9. ^ The Lord Provost of Edinburgh is ex officio the Lord-Lieutenant of Edinburgh.
  10. ^ The Lord Provost of the City of Glasgow, by virtue of office, is Lord Lieutenant of the County of the City of Glasgow.
  11. ^ "Appointment of Lord-Lieutenant of Lancashire – GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. 4 April 2023.
  12. ^ The City of London is unique in that the post of Lord-Lieutenant is held in commission. The Lord Mayor of the City of London is the head of the Commission of Lieutenancy.
  13. ^ "Peace, John: Brief Biography". Reuters. Retrieved 30 October 2012.
  14. ^ "Lord-Lieutenant for Surrey: Michael More-Molyneux".
  15. ^ "H.M. Lord Lieutenant of West Glamorgan". H.M. Lord Lieutenant of West Glamorgan. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
  16. ^ "No. 64483". The London Gazette. 9 August 2024. p. 15390.