Offices of Lord-Lieutenant

England

The Crown appoints a Lord-Lieutenant for each of the following:

  • Bedfordshire
  • Berkshire
  • The City and Council of Bristol
  • Buckinghamshire
  • Cambridgeshire
  • Cheshire
  • Cornwall
  • Cumbria
  • Derbyshire
  • Devon
  • Dorset
  • County Durham
  • Essex
  • Gloucestershire
  • Hampshire
  • Herefordshire
  • Hertfordshire
  • Isle of Wight
  • Kent
  • Lancashire
  • Leicestershire
  • Lincolnshire
  • London (Greater)*
  • Manchester (Greater)
  • Merseyside
  • Norfolk
  • Northamptonshire
  • Northumberland
  • Nottinghamshire
  • Oxfordshire
  • Rutland
  • Shropshire
  • Somerset
  • Staffordshire
  • Suffolk
  • Surrey
  • Sussex (East)
  • Sussex (West)
  • Tyne and Wear
  • Warwickshire
  • West Midlands
  • Wiltshire
  • Worcestershire
  • Yorkshire (East Riding)
  • Yorkshire (North Riding)
  • Yorkshire (South)

*Greater London includes the City of London

Wales

The Crown appoints a Lord-Lieutenant for each of the following:

  • Clwyd
  • Dyfed
  • Gwent
  • Gwynedd
  • Mid Glamorgan
  • Powys
  • South Glamorgan
  • West Glamorgan

Scotland

The Crown appoints a Lord-Lieutenant for each of the following:

  • City of Aberdeen*
  • City of Dundee*
  • City of Edinburgh*
  • City of Glasgow*
  • Aberdeenshire
  • Angus
  • Argyll and Bute
  • Ayr and Arran
  • Banffshire
  • Berwickshire
  • Caithness
  • Clackmannanshire
  • Dumfries
  • Dunbartonshire
  • East Lothian
  • Fife
  • Inverness
  • Kincardineshire
  • Lanarkshire
  • Midlothian
  • Moray
  • Nairn
  • Orkney
  • Perth and Kinross
  • Renfrewshire
  • Ross and Cromarty
  • Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale
  • Shetland
  • Stewartry of Kirkcudbright (Dumfries and Galloway)
  • Stirling and Falkirk
  • Sutherland
  • Tweeddale
  • West Lothian
  • Western Isles
  • Wigtown

* The Lord Provost is by virtue of his office, Lord-Lieutenant for these cities.

Northern Ireland

The Crown appoints a Lord-Lieutenant for each of the following:

  • City of Londonderry
  • County Antrim
  • County Armagh
  • County Down
  • County Londonderry
  • County Tyrone
  • County Fermanagh
  • The County Borough of Belfast

 

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