This is a list of people who have served as Lord-Lieutenant of Rutland.
In 1974 Rutland became part of Leicestershire under the Local Government Act 1972, the Lieutenancy was abolished, with Rutland's Lord-Lieutenant becoming Lord-Lieutenant of Leicestershire.
When Rutland was restored as a unitary authority in 1997, so was its Lord Lieutenant.
The Lord-Lieutenant is supported in their duties by their Lord-Lieutenant's Cadets, chosen from local cadet units.
Since 1690, all lord-lieutenants have also been Custos Rotulorum of Rutland.
Lord-lieutenants of Rutland
| Lord Lieutenant | 
From | 
Until
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| Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland[1] | 
1559 | 
1563
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| Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon | 
? | 
14 December 1595
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| George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon
 | 
2 October 1596
 | 
30 December 1604
 | 
| Vacant
 | 
| John Harington, 1st Baron Harington of Exton | 
16 May 1607 | 
23 August 1613
 | 
| John Harington, 2nd Baron Harington of Exton | 
8 October 1613
 | 
27 February 1614
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Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntingdon jointly with Ferdinando Hastings, 6th Earl of Huntingdon
 | 
1614 27 December 1638
 | 
1642 1642
 | 
| David Cecil, 3rd Earl of Exeter
 | 
5 March 1642
 | 
1643
 | 
| Interregnum 1643โ1660
 | 
| Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden | 
9 August 1660 | 
29 October 1682
 | 
Edward Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough jointly with Wriothesley Noel, Viscount Campden
 | 
17 November 1682 24 March 1685
 | 
23 January 1688 23 January 1688
 | 
| Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough | 
23 January 1688 | 
28 August 1690
 | 
| Bennet Sherard, 2nd Baron Sherard | 
28 August 1690 | 
15 January 1700
 | 
| Bennet Sherard, 3rd Baron Sherard | 
11 March 1700 | 
14 November 1712
 | 
| John Cecil, 6th Earl of Exeter | 
14 November 1712 | 
12 September 1715
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| Bennet Sherard, 1st Earl of Harborough | 
12 September 1715 | 
16 October 1732
 | 
| Philip Sherard, 2nd Earl of Harborough | 
17 July 1733 | 
20 July 1750
 | 
| Brownlow Cecil, 9th Earl of Exeter | 
6 June 1751 | 
12 April 1779
 | 
| George Finch, 9th Earl of Winchilsea | 
12 April 1779 | 
2 August 1826
 | 
| Brownlow Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Exeter | 
7 October 1826 | 
16 January 1867
 | 
| Charles Noel, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough | 
22 February 1867 | 
13 August 1881
 | 
| William Tollemache, 9th Earl of Dysart | 
3 November 1881 | 
29 March 1906
 | 
| John Brocklehurst, 1st Baron Ranksborough | 
29 March 1906 | 
28 February 1921
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| Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 2nd Earl of Ancaster | 
6 January 1921 | 
29 September 1951
 | 
| William Melville Codrington | 
5 February 1951 | 
29 April 1963
 | 
| Thomas Haywood (subsequently Lord-Lieutenant of Leicestershire) | 
12 August 1963 | 
31 March 1974
 | 
| Lord-Lieutenancy abolished after Rutland merged with Leicestershire
 | 
| Sir Thomas Lawrie (Jock) Kennedy[2] | 
1 April 1997 | 
14 July 2003
 | 
| Sir Laurence Howard[3] | 
14 July 2003 | 
29 March 2018
 | 
| Dr Sarah Furness[4][5] | 
3 April 2018 | 
Present
 | 
References
- J.C. Sainty (1970). "Lieutenancies of Counties, 1585โ1642". Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research (Special Supplement No. 8): 30.
 
- J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
 
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