Governor of Chester

The Governor of Chester was a military officer responsible for the garrison at Chester Castle. The equivalent or related role from the 11th to 14th centuries was Constable of Chester.

Governors

• 1399: John Montagu, 3rd Earl of Salisbury
• 1643: (11 November–) John Byron, 1st Baron Byron
• 1644 (19 May–): William Legge
• 1644: John Marrow (shot by Parliamentary forces)
• 1644: Sir Nicholas Byron (captured during siege)
• 1644: John Byron, 1st Baron Byron
• 1646–?: Michael Jones (Parliamentarian)
• 1647- Col. William Massey of Audlem arrested by mutineers 30 June 1647- (Dore)
• 1650: Robert Dukenfield
• 1650s: Thomas Croxton
• 1659: Richard Dutton
• ?–1660: Robert Venables
• 1660–1663: Sir Evan Lloyd, 1st Baronet
• 1663–1682: Sir Geoffrey Shakerley
• 1682–1689: Peter Shakerley
• 1689–1693: Sir John Morgan, 2nd Baronet
• 1693–1702: Roger Kirkby
• 1702–1705: Peter Shakerley (again)
• 1705–1713: Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley
• 1713–1714: Thomas Ashton
• 1714–1725: Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley (again)
• 1725–1733: George Cholmondeley, 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley
• 1725–1770: George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley
• 1770–1775: James Cholmondeley
• 1775–1796: Charles Rainsford
• 1796–1844: Edward Morrison

Lieutenant-governors

• 1644: Sir Francis Gamell
• 1705–  : Thomas Brooke
• 1712–1713: Thomas Ashton
• 1715–1730: William Newton
• 1731–1770: James Cholmondeley
• 1770–1779: David Home
• 1779–1786: Thomas Fraser
• 1786–1802: William Gunn
• 1802–1817: William Grey
• 1817–1828: Edmund Coghlan
• 1828–1843: Sir John Fraser

References

Sources

• Firth, Charles Harding (1892), "Legge, William (1609?-1672)", Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder & Co, pp. 141–146
• Warburton, Eliot (1849), Memoirs of Prince Rupert and the Cavaliers, vol. 2, London: R. Bentley