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 * 1666–1695 John Skeffington, 2nd Viscount Massereene (attainted 1689, reappointed 1693, died 1695)

Down

* 1660–1663 Hugh Montgomery, 1st Earl of Mount Alexander * 1663–? William Montgomery (died 1706) * 1678–1683 Michael Hill (died 1693) (also Custos Rotulorum of Antrim 1678-?) * 1683–?

Hugh Montgomery, 2nd Earl of Mount Alexander Hugh Montgomery, 2nd Earl of Mount Alexander (24 February 1651 – 12 February 1717) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and peer. Montgomery was the son of Hugh Montgomery, 1st Earl of Mount Alexander and his first wife, Mary, daughter of Charles Moore, 2n ...

* ?1693–?1699 Michael Hill (died 1699) * 1729–1742

Trevor Hill, 1st Viscount Hillsborough Trevor Hill, 1st Viscount Hillsborough (1693 – 5 May 1742) was an Anglo-Irish landowner and politician who sat in the Irish House of Commons from 1713 to 1715 and in the British House of Commons from 1715 to 1722. Hill was the eldest son of M ...

(died 1742) *1742–1793

Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, (30 May 1718 – 7 October 1793), known as the 2nd Viscount Hillsborough from 1742 to 1751 and as the 1st Earl of Hillsborough from 1751 to 1789, was a British politician of the Georgian era. Best known ...

*1793–?1801 Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire (died 1801)

Londonderry and Down

* 1803–?1821 Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry * 1821–1822

Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, (18 June 1769 – 12 August 1822), usually known as Lord Castlereagh, derived from the courtesy title Viscount Castlereagh ( ) by which he was styled from 1796 to 1821, was an Kingdom of Ireland, Ir ...

* 1822–?1854

Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, (born Charles William Stewart; 1778–1854), was an Anglo-Irish people, Anglo-Irish nobleman, a British soldier and a politician. He served in the French Revolutionary Wars, in the suppressi ...

(died 1854) For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Londonderry and Lord Lieutenant of Down

References

{{Custodes Rotulorum Londonderry