British Offices and Honours
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Name Entered office Left office Party Notes
Robert Legge 25 April 1546 8 July 1549
Benjamin Gonson 8 July 1549 26 November 1577
John Hawkins
from 1588, Sir John Hawkins
18 November 1577 12 November 1595
Fulk Greville 22 December 1598 26 April 1604
Sir Robert Mansell 26 April 1604 11 May 1618
Sir William Russell 11 May 1618 5 April 1627
Sackville Crowe 5 April 1627 21 January 1630
Sir William Russell 21 January 1630 12 January 1639
Sir William Russell and Henry Vane
from 1640, Sir Henry Vane
12 January 1639 10 January 1642
Sir William Russell and Sir John Penington 13 August 1642 September 1646 royalist
Sir Henry Vane 24 July 1645 31 December 1650 parliamentary
Sir William Russell September 1646 January 1654 royalist
Richard Hutchinson 1 January 1651 1 July 1660 commonwealth
Sir George Carteret 1 July 1660 29 June 1667
The Earl of Anglesey 2 July 1667 2 November 1668
Sir Thomas Osborne and Sir Thomas Littelton 4 November 1668 3 October 1671
Sir Thomas Osborne 3 October 1671 12 July 1673
Edward Seymour 5 July 1673 13 June 1681
The Viscount Falkland 13 June 1681 4 April 1689 Tory
Edward Russell
from 1697, the Earl of Orford
4 April 1689 20 June 1699 Whig
Sir Thomas Littleton 20 June 1699 1 January 1710 Whig
Robert Walpole 21 January 1710 8 June 1711 Whig
Charles Caesar 8 June 1711 5 October 1714 Tory
John Aislabie 5 October 1714 20 March 1718 Whig
Richard Hampden 20 March 1718 24 October 1720 Whig
Sir George Byng
from 1721, the Viscount Torrington
24 October 1720 18 April 1724
Pattee Byng
from 1733, the Viscount Torrington
18 April 1724 20 April 1734 Whig
Arthur Onslow 20 April 1734 12 May 1742 Whig
Thomas Clutterbuck 12 May 1742 23 November 1742 Whig
Sir Charles Wager 20 December 1742 24 May 1743 Whig
Sir John Rushout 24 December 1743 29 December 1744 Whig
George Dodington 29 December 1744 3 May 1749 Whig
Henry Legge 3 May 1749 4 April 1754 Whig
George Grenville 4 April 1754 13 January 1756 Whig
George Dodington 13 January 1756 25 November 1756 Whig
George Grenville 25 November 1756 2 June 1762 Whig
The Viscount Barrington 2 June 1762 9 August 1765 Whig
The Viscount Howe 9 August 1765 19 March 1770 Whig
Sir Gilbert Elliot 19 March 1770 11 February 1777 Tory
Welbore Ellis 12 June 1777 10 April 1782 Tory
Isaac Barré 10 April 1782 19 August 1782 Whig
Henry Dundas 19 August 11 April 1783 Whig
Charles Townshend 11 April 1783 5 January 1784 Tory
Henry Dundas 5 January 1784 2 June 1800 Tory
Dudley Ryder 2 June 1800 21 November 1801 Tory
Charles Bragge 21 November 1801 3 June 1803 Tory
George Tierney 3 June 1803 29 May 1804 Whig
George Canning 29 May 1804 22 February 1806 Tory
Richard Brinsley Sheridan 22 February 1806 30 March 1807 Whig
George Rose 15 April 1807 13 January 1818 Tory
Frederick Robinson 12 February 1818 31 January 1823 Tory
William Huskisson 8 February 1823 10 September 1827 Tory
Charles Grant 10 September 1827 June 1828 Tory
William Vesey Fitzgerald 15 July 1828 25 February 1830 Tory
Thomas Frankland Lewis 25 February 1830 22 November 1830 Tory
Charles Thomson 30 November 1830 14 November 1834 Whig
Viscount Lowther 22 December 1834 8 April 1835 Conservative
Sir Henry Parnell 20 April 1835 1 December 1836 Whig
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