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Lord Chancellor

highest-ranking regularly-appointed Great Officer of State of the United Kingdom

33 dated entries naming Lord Chancellor, drawn from 31 separate years between 1084 CE and 1868 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Lord Chancellor of England in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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11th century

  • 1084Herfast (or Arfast), Norman Lord Chancellorsource

12th century

  • 1129January 23 – Henry of Blois becomes bishop of Winchester after the death of William Giffard (who was also Lord Chancellor to King Henry I) in England.source
  • 1189August 20 or 21 – Geoffrey Ridel, English bishop and Lord Chancellorsource

13th century

  • 1226May 17 – Ralph Neville is appointed as the new Lord Chancellor of England by the Great Council of Regency, regent for the Kingdom of England during the reign of King Henry III.source
  • 1262July 13 – Henry Wingham, English Lord Chancellor and bishopsource
  • 1265January 20 – John Maunsell, Lord Chancellor of Englandsource

14th century

  • 1302January 26 – Godfrey Giffard, English Lord Chancellor and bishopsource
  • 1304December 4 – William Greenfield, Lord Chancellor of England, is elected Archbishop of York by the church leaders in the diocese, then sets off for Rome to receive the consecration of the office by the Pope.source
  • 1304December 29 – William de Hamilton is nominated Lord Chancellor of England, the highest office at the time for a member of Parliament, by King Edward I. He takes office on January 16.source
  • 1305January 16 – William de Hamilton is formally invested as Lord Chancellor, the highest-ranking elected official at the time in England.source
  • 1307April 21 – Ralph Baldock, Bishop of London, becomes the new Lord Chancellor of England upon the death of William Hamilton, but serves for less than four months.source
  • 1307August 2 – In the first reorganization of the English government by the new King, Edward II, Gilbert Segrave replaces Ralph Baldock as Lord Chancellorsource
  • 1318June 11 – John Hotham is appointed as the Lord Chancellor of England, the highest ranking office for a member of parliament, by King Edward II.source
  • 1327May 28 – Robert Baldock, Lord Privy Seal and Lord Chancellor of Englandsource
  • 1367September 1 – One month before his appointment as Bishop of Winchester, William of Wykeham is confirmed as the Chancellor of England following his appointment by King Edward III.source
  • 1383March 13 – Michael de la Pole becomes the new Lord Chancellor of the England for King Richard II.source

15th century

  • 1486March 30 – Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor of England (born c. 1404)source

16th century

  • 1515December 24 – Thomas Wolsey is named Lord Chancellor of England.source
  • 1529October 26 – Cardinal Thomas Wolsey falls from power in England, due to his failure to obtain an annulment of Henry VIII's marriage and to prevent Habsburg expansion in Europe. Thomas More succeeds him as Lord Chancellor.source
  • 1532May 16 – Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.source
  • 1533January 26 – Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, is appointed Lord Chancellor of England.source
  • 1535July 6 – Sir Thomas More, author of Utopia and one time Lord Chancellor of England, is executed for treason, after refusing to recognize King Henry VIII as head of the English Church, and separate from the Roman Catholic Church.source
  • 1544April 30 – Thomas Audley, Lord Chancellor of England (born 1488)source
  • 1567June 12 – Richard Rich, Lord Chancellor of England (born 1496)source
  • 1578December – Nicholas Heath, Archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor of England (born 1501)source

17th century

  • 1617December 30 – Lord Clifton is imprisoned at the Tower of London for threatening Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor. Clifton is prosecuted by the Star Chamber on March 17 and eventually commits suicide in Fleet Prison.source
  • 166730 August – The Earl of Clarendon is dismissed as Lord Chancellor.source
  • 16739 November – the King removes Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, from his position as Lord Chancellor.source
  • 168528 September – Jeffreys is appointed Lord Chancellor by the king.source

18th century

  • 1723October 10 – William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England (born c. 1665)source
  • 1727July 23 – Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (born c. 1660)source
  • 1764March 6 – Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England (born 1690)source

19th century

  • 1868May 7 – Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (born 1778)source

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