This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire United Kingdom . Lord Lieutenants are supported by an appointed Vice Lord Lieutenant and Deputy Lieutenants . Since 1715, all Lord Lieutenants have also been Custos Rotulorum of Cambridgeshire .[1]
The current Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire is Julie Spence as of 4 April 2017[update]
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Lord Lieutenants of Cambridgeshire to 1965
Incorporating the liberty of Isle of Ely , a county palatine from 1107 to 1535/6, declared a division of Cambridgeshire in 1837 when the secular powers of the Bishop of Ely ended. For the Soke of Peterborough to 1965, see Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire and for Huntingdonshire during this period, Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdonshire .
William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton 1547–?Edward North, 1st Baron North 1557–1564Roger North, 2nd Baron North 20 November 1569 – ?unknown Roger North, 2nd Baron North 8 April 1588 – 3 December 1600vacant Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk 17 July 1602– 28 May 1626Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk 15 June 1626 – 3 June 1640William Maynard, 1st Baron Maynard 17 June 1640 – 17 December 1640 jointly with Dudley North, 3rd Baron North 22 October 1640 – 1642Interregnum James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk 25 July 1660 – 9 March 1681William Alington, 3rd Baron Alington 9 March 1681 – 1 February 1685Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Sandwich vacant Henry Jermyn, 1st Baron Dover 26 November 1686 – 10 May 1689William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford 10 May 1689 – 7 September 1700Lord Edward Russell 22 November 1700 – 27 November 1701Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford 27 November 1701 – 26 May 1711William North, 6th Baron North 6 December 1711 – 28 October 1715Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford 28 October 1715 – 26 November 1727Henry Clinton, 7th Earl of Lincoln 28 March 1728 – 7 September 1728[2] Henry Bromley, 1st Baron Montfort 13 June 1729 – 24 July 1742Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle 24 July 1742 – 25 August 1757Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke 25 August 1757 – 16 May 1790Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke 3 July 1790 – 18 November 1834Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke 20 January 1834– 17 September 1873Charles Watson Townley 20 January 1874 – 17 October 1893
Alexander Peckover, 1st Baron Peckover 11 December 1893 – 12 December 1906Thomas Agar-Robartes, 6th Viscount Clifden 12 December 1906 – 1915[3] Charles Adeane 25 October 1915 – 11 February 1943Richard George Briscoe 15 May 1943 – 16 June 1958Robert Henry Parker 16 June 1958 – 14 April 1965
Lord Lieutenants of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely
The Lieutenancy became that of Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely on 1 April 1965, when that administrative county was formed. For Huntingdon and Peterborough , see the separate Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdon and Peterborough .
Geoffrey Taylor Hurrell 14 April 1965 – 31 March 1974
Lord Lieutenants of Cambridgeshire from 1974
On 1 April 1974, the new non-metropolitan county of Cambridgeshire was formed from Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely and Huntingdon and Peterborough. On 1 April 1998, the city of Peterborough ceded from Cambridgeshire as a unitary authority , but it continues to form part of that county for ceremonial purposes.
Deputy Lieutenants
A deputy lieutenant of Cambridgeshire is commissioned by the Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire. Deputy lieutenants support the work of the lord-lieutenant. There can be several deputy lieutenants at any time, depending on the population of the county. Their appointment does not terminate with the changing of the lord-lieutenant, but they usually retire at age 75.
19th Century
25 January 1831: William Henry Cheere[11]
25 January 1831: George Newton[11]
16 February 1831: John Bendyshe[11]
16 February 1831: Henry Hawkins[11]
16 February 1831: Richard Huddleston[11]
16 February 1831: Wedd William Nash[11]
16 February 1831: John Phillips[11]
16 February 1831: James Wortham[11]
25 February 1831: Ebenezer Foster[11]
25 February 1831: Robert Francis Pate[11]
25 February 1831: John Wing[11] 
