List of office holders of the Duchy of Cornwall

Note: Some of these offices were continued from the Earldom of Cornwall.

Lord Steward and Lord Warden of the Stannaries in Cornwall and Devon

 * See Lord Warden of the Stannaries

Vice-Admiral of Cornwall

 * See List of Vice-Admirals of Cornwall

High Sheriff of Cornwall

 * See High Sheriff of Cornwall

Chancellor and Keeper of the Great Seal (1476–1867?)

 * 1476 Sir William Allington
 * 1490 John Arundell, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield
 * 1502 Robert Frost
 * ? John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury
 * 1610?–12? Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet
 * 1616?–17 Sir Francis Bacon
 * 1617–? Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet
 * 17? –17? Nicholas Lechmere, 1st Baron Lechmere
 * 1729–40 Alexander Denton
 * 1740–51: Sir Thomas Bootle
 * vacant
 * 1802 Thomas Erskine
 * 1806–15 William Adam
 * 1816–18? John Leach
 * 1843–67? Thomas Pemberton Leigh

Keeper of the Privy Seal (1846?–1933)

 * 1846? Sir William Gibson-Craig, Bt
 * 1852 Marquess of Chandos
 * 1853 Lord Alfred Hervey
 * 1855 The Viscount Monck
 * 1858 Henry Brand
 * 1858 Henry Whitmore
 * 1859 Sir William Alexander, Bt
 * 1863 Sir William Dunbar, Bt
 * 1865 Herbert William Fisher
 * 1870 The Earl of Leicester
 * 1901–06 The Earl Spencer
 * 1907 The Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
 * 1913–33 The Lord Clinton
 * see Lord Warden of the Stannaries since 1933

Receiver-General (1400–present)

 * 1400 John Waterton
 * 1413 John Willecotes
 * 1422 John Copleston Jnr
 * 1422 Thomas Congreve
 * 1423 Lewis John
 * 1433 Robert Whittingham
 * 1439 Thomas Gloucester
 * 1444 John Brecknock
 * 1456 Robert Whittingham
 * 1461 William, Lord Hastings
 * 1473 Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers
 * 1483 Sir John Sapcotes
 * 1485 Sir Robert Willoughby (later 1st Lord Willoughby de Broke)
 * 1503 Sir Richard Nanfan
 * 1507 Sir John Arundell
 * 1533 Sir Thomas Arundell
 * 1553 Sir Henry Gates
 * 1553 Sir Edward Waldegrave
 * 1553 John Coswarth
 * 1574 Thomas Cosoworth
 * 1586 Sir Francis Godolphin
 * 1604 Sir Richard Smith
 * 1618 Thomas Smyth
 * 1637 Sir David Cunningham
 * 1638 Robert Napier of Punknoll
 * 1643 Richard Nicholl
 * 1646 Arthur Upton
 * 1650 George Crompton
 * 1650 Gabriel Tailor
 * 1709–12 Robert Corker
 * 1715–20 Edward Eliot
 * 1720–31 Robert Corker
 * 1731–36 Edward Penrose of Penrose Law Suite 1749
 * bef. 1740–48? Richard Eliot
 * 1751 Edward Craggs-Eliot, 1st Baron Eliot
 * 1804 Richard Brinsley Sheridan
 * 1807 The Viscount Lake
 * 1808 Richard Brinsley Sheridan
 * 1816 Sir John McMahon, 1st Baronet
 * 1817 Lord William Gordon
 * 1823 Sir William Knighton, Bt
 * 1830? Sir Henry Wheatley, Bt
 * 1849–62 Office abolished.
 * 1862 Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps
 * 1866 Sir Thomas Myddleton-Biddulph
 * 1878 Sir William Thomas Knollys
 * 1883 Sir John Rose, Bt
 * 1888 Sir Robert Kingscote
 * 1908 The Lord Revelstoke
 * 1929–36 Sir Edward Peacock
 * 1961–73 The Lord Ashburton
 * 1974 The Hon. Sir John Baring (later Lord Ashburton)
 * 1990 The Earl Cairns
 * 2000 The Hon. James Leigh-Pemberton
 * 2022 Edward Harley CBE

Attorney-General (1457–present)

 * 1457 Thomas Throckmorton
 * 1472 Sir William Allington
 * 1477 John Twynho
 * 1490 John Mordaunt
 * 1511 William Esyngton
 * 1515 William Ruddall
 * 1515 Sir Robert Southwell
 * 1529 John Baldewyn
 * 1532 Sir Richard Riche
 * 1532 John Cocke
 * 1561 John Penne
 * 1567? Stephen Brente
 * 1599? Thomas Harrison
 * 1601 Hannibal Vivian
 * 1603 Gilbert Mitchell
 * 1604 Thomas Fleetwood
 * 1605 Thomas Stephens
 * 1615 Sir John Walter
 * 1632? William Noye
 * 1634 Sir John Bankes
 * 1635 Sir Richard Lane
 * 1643 Sir Robert Holborne
 * 1648? Francis Buller
 * 1698 Francis Pengelly
 * 1714 Spencer Cowper
 * 1728 William Lee
 * 1730 William Fortescue
 * 1736 Robert Pauncefort
 * 1748 Henry Bathurst
 * 1754 Robert Henley (later Earl of Northington)
 * 1756 Charles Pratt (later Earl Camden)
 * 1783 Thomas Erskine (later Lord Erskine)
 * 1793 Robert Graham
 * 1800 Vicary Gibbs
 * 1805 William Adam
 * 1806 William Garrow
 * 1812 Joseph Jekyll
 * 1816 William Draper Best
 * 1819 Charles Warren
 * 1841 Thomas Pemberton (later Lord Kingsdown)
 * 1843 The Hon. John Chetwynd-Talbot
 * 1852 Sir Edward Smirke
 * 1863 Sir William Alexander, Bt
 * 1873 George Loch
 * 1877 Alfred Henry Thesiger
 * 1877 Sir Charles Hall
 * 1892 Sir Henry James (later Lord James of Hereford)
 * 1895 Charles Cripps (later Lord Parmoor)
 * 1914 George Cave (later Lord Cave)
 * 1915 Henry Duke (later Lord Merrivale)
 * 1920 Sir Douglas Hogg (later Viscount Hailsham)
 * 1923 Anthony Hawke
 * 1928 Geoffrey Lawrence (later Lord Trevethin and Oaksey)
 * 1932 Walter Monckton (later Lord Monckton of Brenchley)
 * 1951–60: Charles Russell (later Lord Russell of Killowen)
 * 1960 Sir Joseph Molony
 * 1969 Anthony Lloyd
 * 1978 Andrew Morritt
 * 1988 Robert Carnwath
 * 1994 Sir Jeremy Sullivan
 * 1998 Nicholas Underhill
 * 2006 Jonathan Crow

Surveyor-General (1747–1849)

 * 1729–38 Richard Eliot
 * 1747 The Lord Baltimore
 * 1751 Edward Bayntun-Rolt
 * 1796? Sir John Morshead, Bt
 * 1808–29 Benjamin Tucker
 * 1833 Philip Sidney, 1st Baron De L'Isle and Dudley
 * 1849 James Robert Gardiner

Keeper of the Records (1843–present)

 * 1843–49 James Robert Gardiner
 * ?–1873 Joshua Wigley Bateman
 * 1873 George Wilmshurst
 * 1886 Sir Maurice Holzmann
 * 1908 Sir Walter Peacock
 * 1930 Major Hilgrove McCormick
 * 1936–54 Sir Clive Burn
 * ?–1972 Sir Patrick Kingsley
 * 1972 Francis Anthony Gray
 * 1981 John Walter Yeoman Higgs
 * 1987 Sir David Landale
 * 1993 Sir John James
 * 1997 Sir Walter Ross
 * 2013 Alastair Martin

Auditor (1509–1993)

 * 1509 Hugh Molyneux
 * 1543? Robert Hennage
 * 1543 Thomas Mildmay
 * 1547 Walter Mildmay
 * 1567 John Conyers
 * 1574? William Neale
 * 1590? Robert Paddon
 * 1602 Nathaniel Fulwer
 * 1603 Richard Connock
 * 1622 Thomas Gewen
 * 1633 John Downes
 * 1645 William Loving
 * 1661 William Harbord
 * 1692 Philip Bertie
 * 1704–23? Albemarle Bertie
 * 1735–51 Charles Montagu
 * 1751–67 William Trevanion
 * 1768 Richard Hussey
 * 1770 John Buller
 * 1783 Henry Lyte
 * 1791 John Willett Payne
 * 1796 Thomas Tyrwhitt
 * 1803 Sir John McMahon, 1st Baronet
 * 1816 Benjamin Bloomfield
 * 1817 Sir William Knighton, 1st Baronet
 * 1823–41 George Harrison
 * 1843 Edward White
 * 1851 Sir William Anderson
 * 1891 Lesley Probyn
 * 1916–? Laurence Halsey
 * 1957–? Edmund Parker
 * 1971–93 Jeffery Bowman

Solicitor-General (1714–present)

 * 1714 John Fortescue Aland
 * 1715 Laurence Carter
 * 1717 Charles Talbot
 * 1726 John Finch
 * 1729 William Fortescue
 * 1730 Robert Pauncefort
 * 1736 Richard Hollings
 * 1741 Alexander Hume Campbell
 * 1746 Henry Bathurst
 * 1748 Paul Joddrell
 * 1751 Robert Henley
 * 1754 Charles Yorke
 * 1783 Sir Arthur Leary Piggott
 * 1793 John Anstruther
 * 1795 Vicary Gibbs
 * 1800 Thomas Manners-Sutton
 * 1802 William Adam
 * 1805 Joseph Jekyll
 * 1812 Samuel Shepherd
 * 1813 William Draper Best
 * 1816 William Harrison
 * 1841? Edward Smirke
 * 1908 Robert Ernest Tucker
 * 1940 Sir Clive Burn
 * 1954 Brian Stopford
 * 1972 Joseph Frederick Burrell
 * 1976 Henry Boyd-Carpenter
 * 1994 James Furber

Cornwall Herald

 * 1398-?: John Hilton, Harper

Chief Commissioner

 * Francis Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford

Havener (Keeper of the Havenary (Ports) of Cornwall and the Port of Plymouth, Devon (1337–1617)

 * 1337 Thomas FitzHenry
 * 1373 Walter Bray
 * 1376 Thomas Asshenden
 * 1377–88 Richard Hampton
 * 1386–95 John Slegh
 * 1388–91 John Maudelyn
 * 1391–5 William Skelton
 * 1395 John Knyveton
 * 1395 Thomas Galy
 * 1397 Edward, Duke of Aumerle
 * 1399 John Norbury
 * 1404–7 John Snede
 * 1411 John Clink
 * 1415 Thomas Chaucer
 * 1426 Robert Treage
 * 1427 John Lawhier
 * 1431 Thomas Treffry
 * 1432 Thomas Est
 * 1454 John Delabere
 * 1455 Thomas Bodulgate (Joint)
 * 1455 Geoffrey Kidwelly (Joint)
 * 1461 Thomas Clemens (Joint)
 * 1461 Richard Edgcumbe (Joint)
 * 1461 Geoffrey Kidwelly (Joint)
 * 1461 Nicholas Loure
 * 1471 Sir Thomas Vaughan
 * 1472 William Richmond
 * 1477 Richard Holton
 * 1483 Sir James Tyrell
 * 1485 Robert Walshe
 * 1486 John Monkeley
 * ? Benedict Killegrew
 * 1502 Thomas Elyot
 * 1515 John Thomas
 * 1516? Henry Pennage
 * 1517 John Amodas
 * 1549? William Reskymer
 * 1552 Henry Killegrew
 * 1553 John Cliff
 * 1578? Peter Killigrew
 * 1601? Joseph Killegrew
 * 1616? Sir John Killigrew
 * 1626? Robert Longdon
 * 1617 William Roscarrock
 * Thomas Gewen
 * Sir William Morrice
 * Sir William Morice, 1st Baronet

Feodary (Escheator) in Cornwall and Devon (1403–1632)

 * 1403 John Haweley Jnr
 * 1437 Michael Power
 * 1451 Edward Ellesmere
 * 1460 Avery Cornburgh
 * 1473 Sir John Fogge and John Fogge (son)
 * 1484 Thomas Sapcotes
 * 1485 Sir Richard Edgcumbe
 * 1489 Peter Edgcumbe
 * 1502 Sir Peter Edgcumbe (joint)
 * 1502–6 Roger Holland (joint)
 * 1539 Sir Hugh Trevanyon
 * 1551 Hugh Trevanyon
 * 1565–6 Richard Strode
 * 1574 Edward Trevanyon
 * 1576 Henry Carye
 * 1581? William Killigrew
 * 1604 Richard Billing
 * 1607 John Sorrell
 * 1626? Robert Langdon
 * 1632? Stephen Smyth
 * ? Henry Carew

President of the Council

 * Albert, Prince Consort