List of chancellors of Durham

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This is a list of those who have served as Chancellor of County Durham:

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (October 2020)
  • 1655–?: Thomas Widdrington
  • 1787–1788: John Scott
  • 1788–1791: Sir John Mitford
  • 1791–1798: Sir Thomas Manners-Sutton
  • 1798–1818: Samuel Romilly
  • 1818–1835: Robert Hopper Williamson
  • 1835–1846: Sir Charles Wetherell
  • 1847–1851: Richard Torin Kindersley
  • 1851–1871: Christopher Temple[1]
  • 1871–1887: James Fleming[2]
  • 1887–1892: Gainsford Bruce[3]
  • 1892–1905: Thomas Milvain[4]
  • 1905–1915: John Scott Fox[5]
  • 1915–1930: Edward Tindal Atkinson
  • 1930–1936: Sir Henry Arthur Colefax[6]
  • 1936–1950: Charles Paley Scott[7]
  • 1950–1958: John Charlesworth[8]
  • 1958–1959: James Neville Gray[9]
  • 1959–1960: Arthur Geoffrey Neale Cross[10]
  • 1960–1969: Henry Edwin Salt[11]
  • 1969–1971: Hugh Elvet Francis[12]

References

  1. ^ "No. 21263". The London Gazette. 14 November 1851. p. 2975.
  2. ^ "No. 23718". The London Gazette. 21 March 1871. p. 1492.
  3. ^ "No. 25734". The London Gazette. 30 August 1887. p. 4695.
  4. ^ "No. 26312". The London Gazette. 2 August 1892. p. 4375.
  5. ^ "No. 27849". The London Gazette. 31 October 1905. p. 7248.
  6. ^ "No. 33623". The London Gazette. 8 July 1930. p. 4268.
  7. ^ "No. 34270". The London Gazette. 3 April 1936. p. 2156.
  8. ^ "No. 38873". The London Gazette. 28 March 1950. p. 1543.
  9. ^ "No. 41388". The London Gazette. 16 May 1958. p. 3090.
  10. ^ "No. 41761". The London Gazette. 10 July 1959. p. 4404.
  11. ^ "No. 41966". The London Gazette. 26 February 1960. p. 1452.
  12. ^ "No. 44824". The London Gazette. 10 April 1969. p. 3747.

1595 Tobias Matthews

Source: Dedication of Barnabe Barnes (c. 1569 - 1609) of his Divine Centurie of Spirituall Sonnets to:

TO THE RIGHT REVERENDE FATHER IN GOD, the Right honourable and my very good Lorde, TOBIE (by the grace of God) Bishop and Counte Palatine of Duresme and Sadberge: Increase of all true zeale, honour & perpetuall consolation of mind and bodye.

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