List of lord chancellors and lord keepers

The following is a list of lords chancellor and lords keeper of the Great Seal of England and Great Britain. It also includes a list of commissioners of Parliament's Great Seal during the English Civil War and Interregnum.

Lords chancellor and lords keeper of England, 1050–1707

From the House of Wessex (1050) to the Commonwealth (1646)

The Great Seal was captured and destroyed by Parliament on 11 August 1646.

Commissioners of Parliament's Great Seal 1643–1660

From the Restoration (1660) to the Act of Union (1707)

Lords high chancellor and lords keeper of Great Britain (1707–present)

Timeline since the Acts of Union

Notes

References

Sources

• John Haydn and Horace Ockerby, The Book of Dignities, third edition, W.H. Allen and Co. Ltd, London 1894, reprinted Firecrest Publishing Limited, Bath 1969, p. 352–358
• John Lord Campbell (1845) Lives of the Lords Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England. 5th ed. (1868) London: Murray, vol. 10

External links

• Department for Constitutional Affairs' list