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32 unusual facts about Deputy Lieutenant


Arthur Haliburton, 1st Baron Haliburton

He was made a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of London in 1893, and served as a Justice of the Peace.

Arthur Lawrence Haliburton, 1st Baron Haliburton GCB DL (26 December 1832 - 21 April 1907) was a Canadian-born British civil servant.

Charles Gordon, 11th Marquess of Huntly

Charles Gordon, 11th Marquess of Huntly PC, DL, JP (5 March 1847 – 20 February 1937), styled Lord Strathavon until 1853 and Earl of Aboyne between 1853 and 1863, was a Scottish Liberal politician.

David Davies, 3rd Baron Davies

David Davies, 3rd Baron Davies DL (b. 2 October 1940), is a British peer and engineer.

Edmund Robertson, 1st Baron Lochee

Edmund Robertson, 1st Baron Lochee PC, QC, LLD, DL (28 October 1845 - 13 September 1911), was a Scottish barrister, academic and Liberal politician.

Edward Montagu of Boughton

In 1570 he became Deputy Lieutenant and was Sheriff of Northamptonshire again from 1570 to 1571.

Fiona Kennedy

Fiona Kennedy Clark, OBE, DL is a Scottish singer, actress, and broadcaster, and the daughter of Scottish and Gaelic singers Calum Kennedy and Anne Gillies.

George Abercromby, 4th Baron Abercromby

George Ralph Campbell Abercromby, 4th Baron Abercromby DL, JP (23 September 1838 – 30 October 1917), styled The Honourable from 1843 to 1852, was a Scottish peer and politician.

George Baillie-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Haddington

George Baillie-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Haddington DL (14 April 1802-25 June 1870), known as George Baillie until 1858, was a Scottish Conservative politician.

Gilbert Sackville, 8th Earl De La Warr

Major Gilbert George Reginald Sackville, 8th Earl De La Warr JP, DL (22 March 1869 – 16 December 1915), styled The Honourable Gilbert Sackville until 1890 and Viscount Cantelupe between 1890 and 1896, was a British landowner, politician and soldier.

Glenapp Castle

The castle was built for the Deputy Lord Lieutenant of the County, James Hunter.

Houghton Hall, Yorkshire

He succeeded his father as 3rd Baron Manton in 1968 and in 1980 was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Humberside.

Humphrey Crum-Ewing

He was a Deputy Lieutenant of Dumbartonshire and J.P. for Dumbartonshire, Argyllshire, Lanarkarkshire, and Renfrewshire.

Ian Diamond

Sir Ian David Diamond, DL, FBA, FRSE, AcSS (born 14 March 1954) is the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen.

Ickwell Bury

In 1898, Ickwell Bury was the property of John Edmund Audley Harvey DL JP and was described as "a mansion of red brick, in the Queen Anne style, standing in a park and woodlands of about five hundred acres, approached by an avenue of trees about a mile in length".

James Ramsay, 17th Earl of Dalhousie

James Hubert Ramsay, 17th Earl of Dalhousie, DL (b. 17 January 1948), styled Lord Ramsay between 1950 and 1999, is a British land-owner.

Joseph Barcroft

Born in Newry, County Down into a Quaker family, he was the son of Henry Barcroft DL and Anna Richardson Malcomson of The Glen, Newry - a property purchased for his parents by his mother's uncle, John Grubb Richardson and adjoining his own estate in Bessbrook.

Lady Victoria Leatham

She is honorary colonel of 158 Royal Anglian Regiment and Deputy Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire.

Marquess of Ely

He was the great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles John Tottenham, DL, JP, eldest son of the Right Reverend Lord Robert Tottenham (who had not assumed the surname Loftus), second son of the first Marquess.

Milbourne Hall

Ralph Bates (1764–1813) High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1812 and later Deputy Lieutenant built the house in about 1810 to a design by Edinburgh architect John Patterson.

Neil Primrose, 7th Earl of Rosebery

He was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Midlothian in 1960 and succeeded his father as Earl in 1974.

Patrick Boyle, 10th Earl of Glasgow

Patrick Robin Archibald Boyle, 10th Earl of Glasgow DL (born 30 July 1939) is a British peer, politician and the current chief of Clan Boyle.

He succeeded to his father's titles in 1984, and became a Deputy Lieutenant of Ayrshire and Arran in 1995.

Ralph Assheton, 1st Baron Clitheroe

Ralph Assheton, 1st Baron Clitheroe PC, DL (1901-1984) was an English aristocrat and politician.

Robert Monteith

Robert Monteith (1812 - 31 March 1884), DL, JP, was Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Lanark.

Sholto Douglas, 19th Earl of Morton

Sholto George Watson Douglas, 19th Earl of Morton, DL (5 November 1844 – 8 October 1935) was a major landowner in Scotland, a businessman with mining investments in what is now Svalbard, Norway, and politician, serving as a representative peer (1886-1935) after being elected by the Peerage of Scotland.

Sir Graham Graham-Montgomery, 3rd Baronet

Sir Graham Graham-Montgomery, 3rd Baronet Stanhope DL (9 July 1823–2 June 1901) was a Scottish baronet and member of the British House of Commons.

Sir Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, 5th Baronet

He was a Deputy Lieutenant and J.P. for Lancashire and Northamptonshire and in 1848 was High Sheriff of Lancashire.

Terry Hodgkinson

He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate at the University of Huddersfield, a CBE for services to business and regeneration and holds the position of Deputy Lieutenant for West Yorkshire and a visiting Professor at Leeds Metropolitan University affiliated to the Faculty of Business and Law.

Umberslade Hall

Frederick Ernest Muntz who succeeded to the estate in 1898 served as High Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1902 and as Deputy Lieutenant.

William Hozier, 1st Baron Newlands

He was a Director of Caledonian Railway Company as well as a Justice of the Peace for Glasgow and Argyll, a Deputy Lieutenant of Glasgow and Vice-Lord-Lieutenant of Lanarkshire.

William Wallace Hozier, 1st Baron Newlands DL, JP (24 February 1825-30 January 1906), known as Sir William Hozier, Bt, between 1890 and 1898, was a Scottish soldier and businessman.


Alan Brooke, 3rd Viscount Brookeborough

Alan Henry Brooke, 3rd Viscount Brookeborough, Bt., DL (born 30 June 1952), is a Northern Irish peer and landowner.

Anthony Buxton

Anthony Buxton DSO DL JP (2 September 1881 - 9 August 1970) was a British soldier and author.

Antrobus baronets

Ronald Henry Antrobus (1891–1980), youngest son of the aforementioned John Coutts Antrobus, was High Sheriff of Cheshire in 1960 and a Deputy Lieutenant of the county.

Arthur Arnold

He was also a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for the County of London, and a Board of Trade Harbour Commissioner and JP for Dartmouth.

Carstairs House Tramway

The tramway was built by Joseph Monteith who owned Carstairs House.

Charles Campbell, 9th Earl of Breadalbane and Holland

Lieutenant-Colonel Charles William Campbell, 9th Earl of Breadalbane and Holland MC, DL, JP (11 June 1889 – 5 May 1959), known as Charles Campbell until 1923, was a Scottish peer and soldier.

Charles Somerset, Marquess of Worcester

He was appointed Custos Rotulorum of Radnorshire (1682–1689), Deputy Lieutenant of Monmouthshire (1683–1687), Wiltshire (1683–1688) and Gloucestershire (1685–1687).

Edmund Faber, 1st Baron Faber

Faber was the eldest son of Charles Wilson Faber, of Northaw, a Deputy Lieutenant of Hertfordshire and Mary Beckett, daughter of Sir Edmund Beckett, 4th Baronet, and thus sister of the 1st Baron Grimthorpe.

Edward Loch, 2nd Baron Loch

He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Suffolk on 27 February 1922, when he was living at Stoke College, Stoke-by-Clare, Suffolk.

Flora Fraser, 21st Lady Saltoun

(born Katharine Ingrid Mary Isabel Ramsay) (b. 11 October 1957), Deputy Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire since 2005, m.

Francis Newall, 2nd Baron Newall

Francis Storer Eaton Newall, 2nd Baron Newall DL (born 23 June 1930, in Surrey, England) is the son of Marshal of the Royal Air Force and Governor-General of New Zealand Sir Cyril Newall and his wife Olivia, and has served as a soldier, staff officer, diplomat, politician, legislator, businessman, and representative of the Crown in a variety of capacities.

Geoffrey Rhodes Bromet

Air Vice Marshal Sir Geoffrey Rhodes Bromet KBE CB DSO, DL (28 August 1891 – 16 November 1983) was an Air Vice Marshal during World War II and a former Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man.

Henry Kitchener, 3rd Earl Kitchener

Major Henry Herbert Kitchener, 3rd Earl Kitchener DL TD (24 February 1919 – 16 December 2011), styled Viscount Broome from 1928 to 1937, was a British peer.

Hughes-Hunter baronets

It was created on 5 December 1906 for Colonel Charles Hughes-Hunter, a Deputy Lieutenant, Justice of the Peace and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

John Moores, Jr.

His older sister Betty Suenson-Taylor, The Dowager Lady Grantchester, who married her husband Kenneth Bent Suenson-Taylor, 2nd Baron Grantchester, his younger brother Sir Peter Moores, CBE, DL and younger sister Janitha Moores.

Mount baronets

Mount was a Territorial Army officer, High Sheriff of Berkshire, a Deputy Lieutenant of the same county and grandfather to David Cameron.

Neville Wigram, 2nd Baron Wigram

Together they had three children: Major Andrew Wigram, who was married in 1974 to Gabrielle Diana Moore; Margaret Cherry Wigram, (born 1942), who in 1972 married Lieutenant Colonel Greville John Wyndham Malet, OBE, they divorced in 1993; Anne Celia Wigram, (born 1945), in 1973 married Major General Evelyn John Webb-Carter, KCVO, OBE, DL.

Philip Thomas Godsal

In 1879 Godsal married Ellen Henrietta Parke who was daughter of Charles Joseph Parke of Henbury, Dorset, and grand daughter of Charles Parke, formerly H.B.M Commissioner to the kingdom of Mexico and Deputy Lieutenant of Dorset.

Queen's Champion

The current and 34th Queen's Champion and 33rd Lord of the Manor of Scrivelsby, 7th Lord of the Manor of Telford, and of the Manor of Scrivelsby, Thornton and Dalderby, patron of the living of Scrivelsby-cum-Dalderby, and Queen's Champion is Lieutenant-Colonel John Lindley Marmion Dymoke, MBE DL Royal Lincolnshire Regiment.

Richard Ottley

At about the same time, Francis Lord Newport of High Ercall was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire and in July he made Ottley his Deputy Lieutenant.

Sanday, Orkney

George Faulknor Francis Horwood (1838–1897), Deputy Lieutenant of Orkney (and youngest son of Edward Horwood, of Weston Turville, Buckinghamshire) who lived at Scar House.

Sidney Hobart-Hampden-Mercer-Henderson, 7th Earl of Buckinghamshire

Sidney Carr Hobart-Hampden-Mercer-Henderson, 7th Earl of Buckinghamshire OBE DL (14 March 1860 – 15 January 1930), styled Lord Hobart from 1875 to 1885, was a British Liberal politician.

Sir Patrick Macnaghten, 11th Baronet

Sir Patrick Alexander Macnaghten, 11th Baronet, DL (24 January 1927 – 22 August 2007) was a British baronet and Chief of the Clan Macnaghten.

Stronge baronets

He served as chief magistrate of police at Dublin, and solicitor to the Board of Inland Revenue for Ireland, and was also a Justice of the Peace for County Armagh and County Tyrone as well as Deputy Lieutenant of County Armagh.

Walter Vavasour Faber

Faber was the youngest son of Charles Wilson Faber, of Northaw, a Deputy Lieutenant of Hertfordshire and Mary Beckett, daughter of Sir Edmund Beckett, 4th Baronet, and thus sister of the 1st Baron Grimthorpe.

William Tollemache, 9th Earl of Dysart

William John Manners Tollemache, 9th Earl of Dysart DL (3 March 1859 – 22 November 1935) in the Peerage of Scotland, was also a Baronet (cr.1793) in the Baronetage of Great Britain, Lord Lieutenant of Rutland (1881–1906), and Justice of the Peace for Leicestershire and Lincolnshire.