Custos Rotulorum of County Londonderry and Down

The Custos Rotulorum of Londonderry and Down was the highest civil officer in counties Londonderry and Down.

Incumbents

Londonderry

• 1663–1665 John Clotworthy, 1st Viscount Massereene ^[1]
• 1666–?1695 John Skeffington, 2nd Viscount Massereene (attainted 1689, reappointed 1693, died 1695) ^[2]

Down

• 1660–1663 Hugh Montgomery, 1st Earl of Mount Alexander
• 1663–? William Montgomery (died 1706) ^[3]
• 1678–?1693 Michael Hill (died 1693) ^[4] (also Custos Rotulorum of Antrim 1678-?)
• ?1693–?1699 Michael Hill (died 1699)^[5]
• 1729–1742 Trevor Hill, 1st Viscount Hillsborough (died 1742) ^[6]
• 1742–1793 Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire ^[7]
• 1793–?1801 Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire (died 1801)

Londonderry and Down

• 1803–?1821 Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry ^[8]
• 1821–1822 Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh ^[9]
• 1822–?1854 Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry (died 1854) ^[9]

For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Londonderry and Lord Lieutenant of Down

References

1. "Foster/Massereene Papers" (PDF). Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
2. "Foster Massereene Papers" (PDF). Records Office of Northern Ireland. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
3. "The Hamilton Manuscripts". JSTOR 20608754.
4. Collins, Arthur. The Peerage of England. p. 415.
5. Collins, Arthur. The peerage of England. p. 456.
6. Collins, Arthur. The peerage of England. p. 457.
7. The English peerage, Volume 1. p. 408.
8. Debrett, John. The Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland. p. 982.
9. Urquhart, Diane. The Ladies of Londonderry: Women and Political Patronage. p. 28.