Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire

This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire. Since 1694, all the Lord Lieutenants have also been Custos Rotulorum of Gloucestershire.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008)

• Edmund Brydges, 2nd Baron Chandos 1559–?
• Giles Brydges, 3rd Baron Chandos 17 November 1586 – 1 February 1594
• William Brydges, 4th Baron Chandos 9 September 1595 – 18 November 1602
• Henry Berkeley, 7th Baron Berkeley 13 August 1603 – 20 November 1613
• Grey Brydges, 5th Baron Chandos 23 December 1613 – 10 August 1621
• William Compton, 1st Earl of Northampton 16 March 1622 – 24 June 1630
• Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton 17 July 1630 – 1642 jointly with
• George Brydges, 6th Baron Chandos 3 August 1641 – 1642
• William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele 1642 (Parliamentary)
• Interregnum
• The Duke of Beaufort 30 July 1660 – 1689
• The Earl of Macclesfield 22 March 1689 – 7 January 1694
• The Earl of Berkeley 25 May 1694 – 24 September 1710
• The Earl of Berkeley 30 November 1710 – 1712
• The Duke of Beaufort 6 March 1712 – 24 May 1714
• The Earl of Berkeley 21 October 1714 – 17 August 1736
• The Earl of Berkeley 21 April 1737 – 9 January 1755
• The Lord Ducie 19 February 1755 – 1758^[1]
• The Lord Chedworth 13 November 1758 – 9 May 1762^[2]
• The Lord Botetourt 4 June 1762 – 1766
• The Earl of Berkeley 5 July 1766 – 8 August 1810
• The Duke of Beaufort 15 September 1810 – 2 December 1835
• The Lord Segrave 18 December 1835 – 10 October 1857 (created Earl FitzHardinge in 1841)
• The Earl of Ducie 13 November 1857 – 1911†
• The Earl Beauchamp 17 July 1911 – 1931†
• The Duke of Beaufort 6 November 1931 – 5 February 1984†
• Martin Gibbs 1984–1992
• Sir Henry Elwes 17 February 1992 – 24 October 2010^[3]
• Dame Janet Trotter 25 October 2010 – 29 October 2018
• Edward Gillespie 29 October 2018^[4] –

† Lord Lieutenant of the County of Gloucester, and of the City and County of the City of Gloucester, and of the City and County of the City of Bristol.