Lord Chancellor

Lord Chancellor is in Offices of State.

Around 1078 Bishop Maurice was appointed Lord Chancellor.

In 1085 Archbishop Gerard was appointed Lord Chancellor.

Before Jan 1091 Bishop Roger Bloet was appointed Lord Chancellor.

In 1189 Bishop William Longchamp was appointed Lord Chancellor for which office he had paid £3000.

In 1226 Bishop Ralph Neville was appointed Lord Chancellor.

In 1260 Bishop Nicholas Ely was appointed Lord Chancellor.

On 25 Feb 1264 Bishop Thomas Cantilupe (age 46) was appointed Lord Chancellor.

After 10 Aug 1265 Archbishop Walter Giffard (age 40) was appointed Lord Chancellor.

In 1266 Godfrey Giffard Bishop of Worcester (age 31) was appointed Lord Chancellor.

In 1274 Bishop Robert Burnell (age 35) was appointed Lord Chancellor.

In 1292 Bishop John Langton was appointed Lord Chancellor.

In 1307 Bishop John Langton was appointed Lord Chancellor.

On 06 Jul 1310 Archbishop Walter Reynolds was appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and Lord Chancellor.

In 1328 Bishop Henry Burghesh (age 36) was appointed Lord Chancellor.

On 14 Dec 1340 Robert Bourchier 1st Baron Bourchier was appointed Lord Chancellor.

In 1367 Bishop William of Wykeham (age 47) was appointed Lord Chancellor which post he resigned in 1371.

In Jan 1380 Archbishop Simon Sudbury (age 64) was appointed Lord Chancellor.

On 20 Sep 1382 Bishop Robert Braybrooke was appointed Lord Chancellor.

In 1383 Michael de la Pole 1st Earl Suffolk (age 53) was appointed Lord Chancellor.

In 1386 Archbishop Thomas Fitzalan aka Arundel (age 33) was appointed Lord Chancellor.

After 04 Mar 1389 Bishop Edmund Stafford (age 45) was appointed Lord Chancellor.

In 1391 Archbishop Thomas Fitzalan aka Arundel (age 38) was appointed Lord Chancellor.

In 1403 Cardinal Henry Beaufort (age 28) was appointed Lord Chancellor.

In 1407 Archbishop Thomas Fitzalan aka Arundel (age 54) was appointed Lord Chancellor.

In 1424 Cardinal Henry Beaufort (age 49) was appointed Lord Chancellor.

In 1432 Archbishop John Stafford was appointed Lord Chancellor which position he held until 1450.

On 27 Mar 1454 Richard Plantagenet 3rd Duke York (age 42) was appointed Lord Protector. Richard Neville 5th Earl Salisbury (age 54) was appointed Lord Chancellor.

Around 1455 Thomas Browne (age 53) was appointed Lord Chancellor.

In Jan 1455 Richard Neville 5th Earl Salisbury (age 55) resigned as Lord Chancellor.

In Mar 1455 Cardinal Thomas Bourchier (age 37) was appointed Lord Chancellor.

In 1461 Archbishop George Neville (age 29) was appointed Lord Chancellor.

On 20 Jun 1467 Bishop Robert Stillington (age 47) was appointed Lord Chancellor.

After 14 Apr 1471 Bishop Robert Stillington (age 51) was appointed Lord Chancellor.

On 18 Jun 1473 Bishop Robert Stillington (age 53) resigned as Lord Chancellor.

On 27 Jul 1473 Archbishop Lawrence Booth (age 53) was appointed Lord Chancellor serving until May 1474.

In 1475 Archbishop Thomas Rotherham (age 51) was appointed Lord Chancellor.

John Russell appointed Lord Chancellor

On 13 May 1483 Bishop John Russell was appointed Lord Chancellor. He replaced Archbishop Thomas Rotherham (age 59).

In 1487 Cardinal John Morton (age 67) was appointed Lord Chancellor.

In Oct 1529 Thomas More (age 51) was appointed Lord Chancellor by King Henry VIII of England and Ireland (age 38).

In 1533 Bishop Stephen Gardiner (age 50) was appointed Lord Chancellor.

On 26 Jan 1533 Thomas Audley 1st Baron Audley Walden (age 45) was appointed Lord Keeper of the Great Seal. and Lord Chancellor as well.

In 1547 Richard Rich 1st Baron Rich (age 50) was appointed Lord Chancellor.

On 20 Dec 1551 Bishop Thomas Goodrich was appointed Lord Chancellor.

In 1555 Archbishop Nicholas Heath (age 54) was appointed Lord Chancellor.

In 1579 Thomas Bromley (age 49) was appointed Lord Chancellor.

In 1603 Thomas Egerton 1st Viscount Brackley (age 63) was appointed Lord Chancellor.

On 21 Feb 1637 Philip Yorke 1st Earl of Hardwicke was appointed Lord Chancellor which position he held until 19 Nov 1756.

Evelyn's Diary. 02 Mar 1665. I went with his Majesty (age 34) into the lobby behind the House of Lords, where I saw the King (age 34) and the rest of the Lords robe themselves, and got into the House of Lords in a corner near the woolsack, on which the Lord Chancellor sits next below the throne: the King (age 34) sat in all the regalia, the crown-imperial on his head, the sceptre and globe, etc. The Duke of Albemarle (age 56) bore the sword, the Duke of Ormond (age 54), the cap of dignity. The rest of the Lords robed in their places:-a most splendid and august convention. Then came the Speaker and the House of Commons (age 48), and at the bar made a speech, and afterward presented several bills, a nod only passing them, the clerk saying, Le Roy le veult, as to public bills, as to private, Soit faite commeil est desirè. Then, his Majesty (age 34) made a handsome but short speech, commanding my Lord Privy Seal (age 59) to prorogue the Parliament, which he did, the Chancellor (age 56) being ill and absent. I had not before seen this ceremony.

Evelyn's Diary. 15 Aug 1673. Came to visit me my Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Shaftesbury (age 52).

In 1675 Heneage Finch 1st Earl Nottingham (age 53) was appointed Lord Chancellor.

Evelyn's Diary. 23 Jan 1683. Sir Francis North (age 45), son to the Lord North, and Lord Chief Justice, being made Lord Keeper on the death of the Earl of Nottingham, the Lord Chancellor, I went to congratulate him. He is a most knowing, learned, and ingenious man, and, besides being an excellent person, of an ingenious and sweet disposition, very skillful in music, painting, the new philosophy, and politer studies.

Evelyn's Diary. 31 Oct 1685. I din'd at our greate Lord Chancellor Jefferies (age 40), who us'd me with much respect. This was the late Chief Justice who had newly ben the Western Circuit to try the Monmouth conspirators, and had formerly don such severe justice amongst the obnoxious in Westmr Hall [Map], for which his Ma* (age 52) dignified him by creating him first a Baron, and now Lord Chancellor. He had some years past ben conversant at Deptford; is of an assur'd and undaunted spirit, and has serv'd the Court interest on all the hardiest occasions; is of nature cruel and a slave of the Court.

Evelyn's Diary. 24 Apr 1700. This week there was a great change of State officers. The Duke of Shrewsbury (age 39) resigned his Lord Chamberlainship to the Earl of Jersey (age 44), the Duke's indisposition requiring his retreat. Mr. Vernon (age 54), Secretary of State, was put out. The Seal was taken from the Lord Chancellor Somers (age 49), though he had been acquitted by a great majority of votes for what was charged against him in the House of Commons. This being in term time, put some stop to business, many eminent lawyers refusing to accept the office, considering the uncertainty of things in this fluctuating conjuncture. It is certain that this Chancellor was a most excellent lawyer, very learned in all polite literature, a superior pen, master of a handsome style, and of easy conversation; but he is said to make too much haste to be rich, as his predecessor, and most in place in this age did, to a more prodigious excess than was ever known. But the Commons had now so mortified the Court party, and property and liberty were so much invaded in all the neighboring kingdoms, that their jealousy made them cautious, and every day strengthened the law which protected the people from tyranny.

On 01 Jun 1725 Peter King 1st Baron King (age 56) was appointed Lord Chancellor. He was created 1st Baron King on the same day.