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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

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

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Vice-Admiral of Cornwall

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High Sheriff of Cornwall

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

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Keeper of the Privy Seal (1846?–1933)

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Receiver-General (1400–present)

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Attorney-General (1457–present)

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Surveyor-General (1747–1849)

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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)

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  • 1337 Thomas FitzHenry
  • 1373 Walter Bray
  • 1376 Thomas Asshenden
  • 1377–88 Richard Hampton
  • 1386–95 John Slegh
  • 1388–91 John Maudelyn
  • 1391–5 William Skelton
  • 1395 John Knyveton
  • 1395 Thomas Galy
  • 1397 Edward, Duke of Aumerle
  • 1399 John Norbury
  • 1404–7 John Snede
  • 1411 John Clink
  • 1415 Thomas Chaucer
  • 1426 Robert Treage
  • 1427 John Lawhier
  • 1431 Thomas Treffry
  • 1432 Thomas Est
  • 1454 John Delabere
  • 1455 Thomas Bodulgate (Joint)
  • 1455 Geoffrey Kidwelly (Joint)
  • 1461 Thomas Clemens (Joint)
  • 1461 Richard Edgcumbe (Joint)
  • 1461 Geoffrey Kidwelly (Joint)
  • 1461 Nicholas Loure
  • 1471 Sir Thomas Vaughan
  • 1472 William Richmond
  • 1477 Richard Holton
  • 1483 Sir James Tyrell
  • 1485 Robert Walshe
  • 1486 John Monkeley
  • ? Benedict Killegrew
  • 1502 Thomas Elyot
  • 1515 John Thomas
  • 1516? Henry Pennage
  • 1517 John Amodas
  • 1549? William Reskymer
  • 1552 Henry Killegrew
  • 1553 John Cliff
  • 1578? Peter Killigrew
  • 1601? Joseph Killegrew
  • 1616? Sir John Killigrew
  • 1626? Robert Longdon
  • 1617 William Roscarrock
  • Thomas Gewen
  • Sir William Morrice
  • Sir William Morice, 1st Baronet[68]

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

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  • 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

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Bibliography

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