Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire

Lord Lieutenants of the East Riding of Yorkshire to 1974

• John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse 26 July 1660 – 12 April 1673
• James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth 12 April 1673 – 20 December 1679
• John Sheffield, 3rd Earl of Mulgrave 20 December 1679 – 17 November 1682
• Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset 17 November 1682 – 13 October 1687
• John Sheffield, 3rd Earl of Mulgrave 13 October 1687 – 5 October 1688
• Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne 5 October 1688 – 26 March 1689
• William Pierrepont, 4th Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull 26 March 1689 – 17 September 1690
• Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds 21 March 1691 – 11 August 1699
• John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne 11 August 1699 – 15 July 1711
• vacant
• Peregrine Osborne, 2nd Duke of Leeds 29 March 1713 – 16 December 1714
• Rich Ingram, 5th Viscount of Irvine 16 December 1714 – 10 April 1721
• William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath 7 December 1721 – 15 July 1728
• Arthur Ingram, 6th Viscount of Irvine 15 July 1728 – 30 May 1736
• Sir Conyers Darcy July 1736 – 22 February 1738
• Henry Ingram, 7th Viscount of Irvine 22 February 1738 – 4 April 1761
• vacant
• Francis Osborne, Marquess of Carmarthen 1 August 1778 – 22 March 1780
• Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle 22 March 1780 – 8 April 1782
• Francis Osborne, 5th Duke of Leeds 8 April 1782 – 31 January 1799
• Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle 1 March 1799 – 29 September 1807
• Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave 29 September 1807 – 10 September 1824
• George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle 10 September 1824 – 31 January 1840
• Paul Thompson, 1st Baron Wenlock 31 January 1840 – 18 June 1847
• George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle 18 June 1847 – 5 December 1864
• Beilby Lawley, 2nd Baron Wenlock 6 December 1864 – 6 November 1880
• Marmaduke Constable-Maxwell, 11th Lord Herries of Terregles 21 December 1880 – 6 October 1908‡
• Charles Wilson, 2nd Baron Nunburnholme 14 November 1908 – 15 August 1924‡
• Robert Wilfrid de Yarburgh-Bateson, 3rd Baron Deramore 30 December 1924 – 1 April 1936‡
• Michael Willoughby, 11th Baron Middleton 8 June 1936 – 17 April 1968‡
• Charles Wood, 2nd Earl of Halifax 17 April 1968 – 31 March 1974 †

The position was abolished on 31 March 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972 and re-established in 1996.

‡His Majesty's Lieutenant of and in the East Riding of the County of York and the Town and County of the Town of Kingston-upon-Hull

† Became Lord Lieutenant of Humberside on 1 April 1974.