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List of office holders of the Duchy of Cornwall

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Note: Some of these offices were continued from the Earldom of Cornwall.

Offices

Lord Steward and Lord Warden of the Stannaries in Cornwall and Devon

See Lord Warden of the Stannaries

Vice-Admiral of Cornwall

See List of Vice-Admirals of Cornwall

High Sheriff of Cornwall

See High Sheriff of Cornwall

Chancellor and Keeper of the Great Seal (1476–1867?)

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1476 Sir William Allington
1490 John Arundell, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield
1502 Robert Frost
? John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury^[1]
1610?–12? Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet
1616?–17 Sir Francis Bacon
1617–? Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet
17? –17? Nicholas Lechmere, 1st Baron Lechmere^[2]
1729–40 Alexander Denton
1740–51: Sir Thomas Bootle
vacant
1802 Thomas Erskine^[3]
1806–15 William Adam^[4]
1816–18? John Leach^[5]
1843–67? Thomas Pemberton Leigh^[6]

Keeper of the Privy Seal (1846?–1933)

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1846? Sir William Gibson-Craig, Bt
1852 Marquess of Chandos^[7]
1853 Lord Alfred Hervey^[8]
1855 The Viscount Monck
1858 Henry Brand^[9]
1858 Henry Whitmore^[10]
1859 Sir William Alexander, Bt^[11]
1863 Sir William Dunbar, Bt^[12]
1865 Herbert William Fisher^[13]
1870 The Earl of Leicester^[14]
1901–06 The Earl Spencer^[15]
1907 The Earl of Mount Edgcumbe^[16]
1913–33 The Lord Clinton
see Lord Warden of the Stannaries since 1933

Receiver-General (1400–present)

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1400 John Waterton
1413 John Willecotes
1422 John Copleston Jnr
1422 Thomas Congreve
1423 Lewis John
1433 Robert Whittingham
1439 Thomas Gloucester
1444 John Brecknock
1456 Robert Whittingham
1461 William, Lord Hastings
1473 Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers
1483 Sir John Sapcotes
1485 Sir Robert Willoughby (later 1st Lord Willoughby de Broke)
1503 Sir Richard Nanfan
1507 Sir John Arundell^[17]
1533 Sir Thomas Arundell^[17]
1553 Sir Henry Gates^[17]
1553 Sir Edward Waldegrave
1553 John Coswarth^[17]
1574 Thomas Cosoworth
1586 Sir Francis Godolphin
1604 Sir Richard Smith
1618 Thomas Smyth
1637 Sir David Cunningham
1638 Robert Napier of Punknoll^[18]
1643 Richard Nicholl
1646 Arthur Upton
1650 George Crompton
1650 Gabriel Tailor
1709–12 Robert Corker
1715–20 Edward Eliot
1720–31 Robert Corker
1731–36 Edward Penrose of Penrose Law Suite 1749
bef. 1740–48? Richard Eliot
1751 Edward Craggs-Eliot, 1st Baron Eliot^[19]
1804 Richard Brinsley Sheridan^[20]
1807 The Viscount Lake
1808 Richard Brinsley Sheridan^[21]
1816 Sir John McMahon, 1st Baronet
1817 Lord William Gordon^[22]
1823 Sir William Knighton, Bt
1830? Sir Henry Wheatley, Bt
1849–62 Office abolished.
1862 Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps^[23]
1866 Sir Thomas Myddleton-Biddulph^[24]
1878 Sir William Thomas Knollys^[25]
1883 Sir John Rose, Bt^[26]
1888 Sir Robert Kingscote^[15]^[27]
1908 The Lord Revelstoke^[28]
1929–36 Sir Edward Peacock^[29]
1961–73 The Lord Ashburton
1974 Sir John Baring (later Lord Ashburton)
1990 The Earl Cairns^[30]
2000 James Leigh-Pemberton
2022 Edward Harley

Attorney-General (1457–present)

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1457 Thomas Throckmorton
1472 Sir William Allington
1477 John Twynho
1490 John Mordaunt
1511 William Esyngton
1515 William Ruddall
1515 Sir Robert Southwell
1529 John Baldewyn
1532 Sir Richard Riche
1532 John Cocke
1561 John Penne
1567? Stephen Brente
1599? Thomas Harrison
1601 Hannibal Vivian
1603 Gilbert Mitchell
1604 Thomas Fleetwood
1605 Thomas Stephens
1615 Sir John Walter
1632? William Noye
1634 Sir John Bankes
1635 Sir Richard Lane
1643 Sir Robert Holborne
1648? Francis Buller
1698 Francis Pengelly
1714 Spencer Cowper
1728 William Lee
1730 William Fortescue
1736 Robert Pauncefort
1748 Henry Bathurst
1754 Robert Henley (later Earl of Northington)
1756 Charles Pratt (later Earl Camden)
1783 Thomas Erskine (later Lord Erskine)
1793 Robert Graham^[31]
1800 Vicary Gibbs
1805 William Adam^[32]
1806 William Garrow^[4]
1812 Joseph Jekyll^[33]
1816 William Draper Best^[5]
1819 Charles Warren^[34]
1841 Thomas Pemberton (later Lord Kingsdown)
1843 The Hon. John Chetwynd-Talbot^[6]
1852 Sir Edward Smirke
1863 Sir William Alexander, Bt^[12]
1873 George Loch^[35]
1877 Alfred Henry Thesiger^[36]
1877 Sir Charles Hall^[37]
1892 Sir Henry James^[38] (later Lord James of Hereford)
1895 Charles Cripps^[15]^[39] (later Lord Parmoor)
1914 George Cave (later Lord Cave)
1915 Henry Duke^[40] (later Lord Merrivale)
1920 Sir Douglas Hogg (later Viscount Hailsham)
1923 Anthony Hawke^[41]
1928 Geoffrey Lawrence^[42] (later Lord Trevethin and Oaksey)
1932 Walter Monckton^[43] (later Lord Monckton of Brenchley)
1951–60: Charles Russell (later Lord Russell of Killowen)
1960 Sir Joseph Molony
1969 Anthony Lloyd
1978 Andrew Morritt
1988 Robert Carnwath
1994 Sir Jeremy Sullivan^[44]
1998 Nicholas Underhill^[45]
2006 Jonathan Crow^[46]
2020 Sharif Shivji

Surveyor-General (1747–1849)

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1729–38 Richard Eliot
1747 The Lord Baltimore
1751 Edward Bayntun-Rolt^[47]
1796? Sir John Morshead, Bt
1808–29 Benjamin Tucker^[48]
1833 Philip Sidney, 1st Baron De L'Isle and Dudley
1849 James Robert Gardiner^[49]

Keeper of the Records (1843–present)

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Auditor (1509–1993)

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Solicitor-General (1714–present)

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Cornwall Herald

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1398-?: John Hilton, Harper^[66]

Chief Commissioner

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Francis Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford^[67]

Havener (Keeper of the Havenary (Ports) of Cornwall and the Port of Plymouth, Devon (1337–1617)

Feodary (Escheator) in Cornwall and Devon (1403–1632)

1403 John Haweley Jnr
1437 Michael Power
1451 Edward Ellesmere
1460 Avery Cornburgh
1473 Sir John Fogge and John Fogge (son)
1484 Thomas Sapcotes
1485 Sir Richard Edgcumbe
1489 Peter Edgcumbe
1502 Sir Peter Edgcumbe (joint)
1502–6 Roger Holland (joint)
1539 Sir Hugh Trevanyon
1551 Hugh Trevanyon
1565–6 Richard Strode
1574 Edward Trevanyon
1576 Henry Carye
1581? William Killigrew
1604 Richard Billing
1607 John Sorrell
1626? Robert Langdon
1632? Stephen Smyth
? Henry Carew

President of the Council

Albert, Prince Consort

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Bibliography

For lists of the Duchy's officers (1337–1650):

Campbell, S. (1962), "The Haveners of the medieval Dukes of Cornwall and the organisation of the Duchy ports", Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, New Series, 4: 113–44, ISSN 0968-5936.
Haslam, G. (1980), An Administrative Study of the Duchy of Cornwall, 1500–1650, PhD thesis, Louisiana State University, pp. 303–05.
Kowaleski, M., ed. (2001), The Haveners' Accounts of the Earldom and Duchy of Cornwall, 1287–1346, New Series, vol. 44, Devon and Cornwall Record Society, ISBN 978-0901853448.
Stansfield-Cudworth, R.E. (2013), "The Duchy of Cornwall and the Wars of the Roses: Patronage, Politics, and Power, 1453–1502", Cornish Studies, 2nd Series, 21: 104–50, doi:10.1386/CORN.21.1.104_1, ISSN 0308-2679.

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