# List of office holders of the Duchy of Cornwall

Note: Some of these offices were continued from the Earldom of Cornwall.

## Offices
### Lord Steward and Lord Warden of the Stannaries in Cornwall and Devon

* See Lord Warden of the Stannaries

### Vice-Admiral of Cornwall

* See List of Vice-Admirals of Cornwall

### High Sheriff of Cornwall

* See High Sheriff of Cornwall

### Chancellor and Keeper of the Great Seal (1476–1867?)

* 1476 Sir William Allington
* 1490 John Arundell, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield
* 1502 Robert Frost
* ? John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury
* 1610?–12? Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet
* 1616?–17 Sir Francis Bacon
* 1617–? Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet
* 17? –17? Nicholas Lechmere, 1st Baron Lechmere
* 1729–40 Alexander Denton
* 1740–51: Sir Thomas Bootle
* vacant
* 1802 Thomas Erskine
* 1806–15 William Adam
* 1816–18? John Leach
* 1843–67? Thomas Pemberton Leigh

### Keeper of the Privy Seal (1846?–1933)

* 1846? Sir William Gibson-Craig, Bt
* 1852 Richard Temple-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
* 1853 Lord Alfred Hervey
* 1855 Charles Monck, 4th Viscount Monck
* 1858 Henry Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden
* 1858 Henry Whitmore
* 1859 Sir William Alexander, 3rd Baronet
* 1863 Sir William Dunbar, 7th Baronet
* 1865 Herbert William Fisher
* 1870 Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester
* 1901–06 John Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer
* 1907 William Edgcumbe, 4th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
* 1913–33 Charles Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 21st Baron Clinton
* see Lord Warden of the Stannaries since 1933

### Receiver-General (1400–present)

* 1400 John Waterton
* 1413 John Willecotes
* 1422 John Copleston Jnr
* 1422 Thomas Congreve
* 1423 Lewis John
* 1433 Robert Whittingham
* 1439 Thomas Gloucester
* 1444 John Brecknock
* 1456 Robert Whittingham
* 1461 William, Lord Hastings
* 1473 Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers
* 1483 Sir John Sapcotes
* 1485 Sir Robert Willoughby (later 1st Lord Willoughby de Broke)
* 1503 Sir Richard Nanfan
* 1507 Sir John Arundell
* 1533 Sir Thomas Arundell
* 1553 Sir Henry Gates
* 1553 Sir Edward Waldegrave
* 1553 John Coswarth
* 1574 Thomas Cosoworth
* 1586 Sir Francis Godolphin
* 1604 Sir Richard Smith
* 1618 Thomas Smyth
* 1637 Sir David Cunningham
* 1638 Robert Napier of Punknoll
* 1643 Richard Nicholl
* 1646 Arthur Upton
* 1650 George Crompton
* 1650 Gabriel Tailor
* 1709–12 Robert Corker
* 1715–20 Edward Eliot
* 1720–31 Robert Corker
* 1731–36 Edward Penrose of Penrose Law Suite 1749
* bef. 1740–48? Richard Eliot
* 1751 Edward Craggs-Eliot, 1st Baron Eliot
* 1804 Richard Brinsley Sheridan
* 1807 Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake
* 1808 Richard Brinsley Sheridan
* 1816 Sir John McMahon, 1st Baronet
* 1817 Lord William Gordon
* 1823 Sir William Knighton, Bt
* 1830? Sir Henry Wheatley, Bt
* 1849–62 Office abolished.
* 1862 Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps
* 1866 Sir Thomas Myddleton-Biddulph
* 1878 Sir William Thomas Knollys
* 1883 Sir John Rose, 1st Baronet
* 1888 Sir Robert Kingscote
* 1908 John Baring, 2nd Baron Revelstoke
* 1929–36 Sir Edward Peacock
* 1961–73 The Lord Ashburton
* 1974 Sir John Baring (later Lord Ashburton)
* 1990 Simon Cairns, 6th Earl Cairns
* 2000 James Leigh-Pemberton
* 2022 Edward Harley

### Attorney-General (1457–present)

* 1457 Thomas Throckmorton
* 1472 Sir William Allington
* 1477 John Twynho
* 1490 John Mordaunt
* 1511 William Esyngton
* 1515 William Ruddall
* 1515 Sir Robert Southwell
* 1529 John Baldewyn
* 1532 Sir Richard Riche
* 1532 John Cocke
* 1561 John Penne
* 1567? Stephen Brente
* 1599? Thomas Harrison
* 1601 Hannibal Vivian
* 1603 Gilbert Mitchell
* 1604 Thomas Fleetwood
* 1605 Thomas Stephens
* 1615 Sir John Walter
* 1632? William Noye
* 1634 Sir John Bankes
* 1635 Sir Richard Lane
* 1643 Sir Robert Holborne
* 1648? Francis Buller
* 1698 Francis Pengelly
* 1714 Spencer Cowper
* 1728 William Lee
* 1730 William Fortescue
* 1736 Robert Pauncefort
* 1748 Henry Bathurst
* 1754 Robert Henley (later Earl of Northington)
* 1756 Charles Pratt (later Earl Camden)
* 1783 Thomas Erskine (later Lord Erskine)
* 1793 Robert Graham
* 1800 Vicary Gibbs
* 1805 William Adam
* 1806 William Garrow
* 1812 Joseph Jekyll
* 1816 William Draper Best
* 1819 Charles Warren
* 1841 Thomas Pemberton (later Lord Kingsdown)
* 1843 The Hon. John Chetwynd-Talbot
* 1852 Sir Edward Smirke
* 1863 Sir William Alexander, Bt
* 1873 George Loch
* 1877 Alfred Henry Thesiger
* 1877 Sir Charles Hall
* 1892 Sir Henry James (later Lord James of Hereford)
* 1895 Charles Cripps (later Lord Parmoor)
* 1914 George Cave (later Lord Cave)
* 1915 Henry Duke (later Lord Merrivale)
* 1920 Sir Douglas Hogg (later Viscount Hailsham)
* 1923 Anthony Hawke
* 1928 Geoffrey Lawrence (later Lord Trevethin and Oaksey)
* 1932 Walter Monckton (later Lord Monckton of Brenchley)
* 1951–60: Charles Russell (later Lord Russell of Killowen)
* 1960 Sir Joseph Molony
* 1969 Anthony Lloyd
* 1978 Andrew Morritt
* 1988 Robert Carnwath
* 1994 Sir Jeremy Sullivan
* 1998 Nicholas Underhill
* 2006 Jonathan Crow
* 2020 Sharif Shivji

### Surveyor-General (1747–1849)

* 1729–38 Richard Eliot
* 1747 Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore
* 1751 Sir Edward Bayntun-Rolt, 1st Baronet
* 1796? Sir John Morshead, Bt
* 1808–29 Benjamin Tucker
* 1833 Philip Sidney, 1st Baron De L'Isle and Dudley
* 1849 James Robert Gardiner

### Keeper of the Records (1843–present)

* 1843–49 James Robert Gardiner
* ?–1873 Joshua Wigley Bateman
* 1873 George Wilmshurst
* 1886 Sir Maurice Holzmann
* 1908 Sir Walter Peacock
* 1930 Major Hilgrove McCormick
* 1936–54 Sir Clive Burn
* ?–1972 Sir Patrick Kingsley
* 1972 Francis Anthony Gray
* 1981 John Walter Yeoman Higgs
* 1987 Sir David Landale
* 1993 Sir John James
* 1997 Sir Walter Ross
* 2013 Alastair Martin

### Auditor (1509–1993)

* 1509 Hugh Molyneux
* 1543? Robert Hennage
* 1543 Thomas Mildmay
* 1547 Walter Mildmay
* 1567 John Conyers
* 1574? William Neale
* 1590? Robert Paddon
* 1602 Nathaniel Fulwer
* 1603 Richard Connock
* 1622 Thomas Gewen
* 1633 John Downes
* 1645 William Loving
* 1661 William Harbord
* 1692 Philip Bertie
* 1704–23? Albemarle Bertie
* 1735–51 Charles Montagu
* 1751–67 William Trevanion
* 1768 Richard Hussey
* 1770 John Buller
* 1783 Henry Lyte
* 1791 John Willett Payne
* 1796 Thomas Tyrwhitt
* 1803 Sir John McMahon, 1st Baronet
* 1816 Benjamin Bloomfield
* 1817 Sir William Knighton, 1st Baronet
* 1823–41 George Harrison
* 1843 Edward White
* 1851 Sir William Anderson
* 1891 Lesley Probyn
* 1916–? Laurence Halsey
* 1957–? Edmund Parker
* 1971–93 Jeffery Bowman

### Solicitor-General (1714–present)

* 1714 John Fortescue Aland
* 1715 Laurence Carter
* 1717 Charles Talbot
* 1726 John Finch
* 1729 William Fortescue
* 1730 Robert Pauncefort
* 1736 Richard Hollings
* 1741 Alexander Hume Campbell
* 1746 Henry Bathurst
* 1748 Paul Joddrell
* 1751 Robert Henley
* 1754 Charles Yorke
* 1783 Sir Arthur Leary Piggott
* 1793 John Anstruther
* 1795 Vicary Gibbs
* 1800 Thomas Manners-Sutton
* 1802 William Adam
* 1805 Joseph Jekyll
* 1812 Samuel Shepherd
* 1813 William Draper Best
* 1816 William Harrison
* 1841? Edward Smirke
* 1908 Robert Ernest Tucker
* 1940 Sir Clive Burn
* 1954 Brian Stopford
* 1972 Joseph Frederick Burrell
* 1976 Henry Boyd-Carpenter
* 1994 James Furber

### Cornwall Herald

* 1398-?: John Hilton, Harper

### Chief Commissioner

* Francis Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford

### Havener (Keeper of the Havenary (Ports) of Cornwall and the Port of Plymouth, Devon (1337–1617)

* 1337 Thomas FitzHenry
* 1373 Walter Bray
* 1376 Thomas Asshenden
* 1377–88 Richard Hampton
* 1386–95 John Slegh
* 1388–91 John Maudelyn
* 1391–5 William Skelton
* 1395 John Knyveton
* 1395 Thomas Galy
* 1397 Edward, Duke of Aumerle
* 1399 John Norbury
* 1404–7 John Snede
* 1411 John Clink
* 1415 Thomas Chaucer
* 1426 Robert Treage
* 1427 John Lawhier
* 1431 Thomas Treffry
* 1432 Thomas Est
* 1454 John Delabere
* 1455 Thomas Bodulgate (Joint)
* 1455 Geoffrey Kidwelly (Joint)
* 1461 Thomas Clemens (Joint)
* 1461 Richard Edgcumbe (Joint)
* 1461 Geoffrey Kidwelly (Joint)
* 1461 Nicholas Loure
* 1471 Sir Thomas Vaughan
* 1472 William Richmond
* 1477 Richard Holton
* 1483 Sir James Tyrell
* 1485 Robert Walshe
* 1486 John Monkeley
* ? Benedict Killegrew
* 1502 Thomas Elyot
* 1515 John Thomas
* 1516? Henry Pennage
* 1517 John Amodas
* 1549? William Reskymer
* 1552 Henry Killegrew
* 1553 John Cliff
* 1578? Peter Killigrew
* 1601? Joseph Killegrew
* 1616? Sir John Killigrew
* 1626? Robert Longdon
* 1617 William Roscarrock
* Thomas Gewen
* Sir William Morrice
* Sir William Morice, 1st Baronet

### Feodary (Escheator) in Cornwall and Devon (1403–1632)

* 1403 John Haweley Jnr
* 1437 Michael Power
* 1451 Edward Ellesmere
* 1460 Avery Cornburgh
* 1473 Sir John Fogge and John Fogge (son)
* 1484 Thomas Sapcotes
* 1485 Sir Richard Edgcumbe
* 1489 Peter Edgcumbe
* 1502 Sir Peter Edgcumbe (joint)
* 1502–6 Roger Holland (joint)
* 1539 Sir Hugh Trevanyon
* 1551 Hugh Trevanyon
* 1565–6 Richard Strode
* 1574 Edward Trevanyon
* 1576 Henry Carye
* 1581? William Killigrew
* 1604 Richard Billing
* 1607 John Sorrell
* 1626? Robert Langdon
* 1632? Stephen Smyth
* ? Henry Carew

### President of the Council

* Albert, Prince Consort