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This is a list of people who have served as Lord-Lieutenant of Rutland .
In 1974 Rutland became part of Leicestershire under the Local Government Act 1972 , the Lieutenancy was abolished, with Rutland's Lord-Lieutenant becoming Lord-Lieutenant of Leicestershire .
When Rutland was restored as a unitary authority in 1997, so was its Lord Lieutenant.
The Lord-Lieutenant is supported in their duties by their Lord-Lieutenant's Cadets , chosen from local cadet units.
Since 1690, all lord-lieutenants have also been Custos Rotulorum of Rutland .
Lord-lieutenants of Rutland
Lord Lieutenant
From
Until
Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland [ 1]
1559
1563
Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon
?
14 December 1595
George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon
2 October 1596
30 December 1604
Vacant
John Harington, 1st Baron Harington of Exton
16 May 1607
23 August 1613
John Harington, 2nd Baron Harington of Exton
8 October 1613
27 February 1614
Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntingdon jointly with Ferdinando Hastings, 6th Earl of Huntingdon
1614 27 December 1638
1642 1642
David Cecil, 3rd Earl of Exeter
5 March 1642
1643
Interregnum 1643–1660
Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden
9 August 1660
29 October 1682
Edward Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough jointly with Wriothesley Noel, Viscount Campden
17 November 1682 24 March 1685
23 January 1688 23 January 1688
Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough
23 January 1688
28 August 1690
Bennet Sherard, 2nd Baron Sherard
28 August 1690
15 January 1700
Bennet Sherard, 3rd Baron Sherard
11 March 1700
14 November 1712
John Cecil, 6th Earl of Exeter
14 November 1712
12 September 1715
Bennet Sherard, 1st Earl of Harborough
12 September 1715
16 October 1732
Philip Sherard, 2nd Earl of Harborough
17 July 1733
20 July 1750
Brownlow Cecil, 9th Earl of Exeter
6 June 1751
12 April 1779
George Finch, 9th Earl of Winchilsea
12 April 1779
2 August 1826
Brownlow Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Exeter
7 October 1826
16 January 1867
Charles Noel, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough
22 February 1867
13 August 1881
William Tollemache, 9th Earl of Dysart
3 November 1881
29 March 1906
John Brocklehurst, 1st Baron Ranksborough
29 March 1906
28 February 1921
Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 2nd Earl of Ancaster
6 January 1921
29 September 1951
William Melville Codrington
5 February 1951
29 April 1963
Thomas Haywood (subsequently Lord-Lieutenant of Leicestershire )
12 August 1963
31 March 1974
Lord-Lieutenancy abolished after Rutland merged with Leicestershire
Sir Thomas Lawrie (Jock) Kennedy [ 2]
1 April 1997
14 July 2003
Sir Laurence Howard [ 3]
14 July 2003
29 March 2018
Dr Sarah Furness [ 4] [ 5]
3 April 2018
Present
References
J.C. Sainty (1970). "Lieutenancies of Counties, 1585–1642". Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research (Special Supplement No. 8): 30.
J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 . London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
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