List of chancellors of Durham

Not to be confused with List of chancellors of Durham University.

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

• 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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