title: List of governors of Kingston upon Hull
text: # List of governors of Kingston upon Hull
  
  Below is a list of those who have held the office of Governor of Kingston upon Hull:
  
  ## Governors of Kingston upon Hull
  
  * 1536: John Hallam
  * 1546–1552: Sir Michael Stanhope (beheaded, 1552)
  * ?-1639: Sir John Hotham, 1st Baronet
  * 1639–1641: Sir Thomas Glemham
  * 1642–?: William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle (Royalist)
  * 1642–?1645: Sir John Hotham, 1st Baronet (Parliamentary) (beheaded by Parliament, 1645)
  * 1645: Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron (Parliamentary)
  * 1645: Sir Thomas Fairfax (Parliamentary) Robert Overton served as his nominee until 1648;
  * 1648–1654: Robert Overton (arrested for his alleged involvement in the Wildman conspiracy)
  * 1655-1659: Henry Smith
  * 1659: Robert Overton
  * 1660–1661: Charles Fairfax
  * 1661–1673: John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse
  * 1673–1679: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth
  * 1679–1682: John Sheffield, 3rd Earl of Mulgrave
  * 1682–1687: Thomas Hickman-Windsor, 1st Earl of Plymouth
  * 1687–1689: Marmaduke Langdale, 2nd Baron Langdale
  * 1689–1699: Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds
  * 1699–1711: John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
  * 1711–1715: Richard Sutton
  * 1715–1721: Rich Ingram, 5th Viscount of Irvine
  * 1721–1725: Thomas Stanwix
  * 1725–1732: George Cholmondeley, 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley
  * 1732–1738: Edward Montagu
  * 1738–1740?: Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough
  * 1740–1741: James Dormer
  * 1743–1766: Harry Pulteney
  * 1766–1785: Philip Honywood
  * 1785–1794: James Murray
  * 1794–1795: George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend
  * 1795–1801: William Harcourt, 3rd Earl Harcourt
  * 1801–1808: John de Burgh, 13th Earl of Clanricarde
  * 1808–1813: Sir William Medows
  * 1813–1814: Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond
  * 1814–1830: Rowland Hill, 1st Baron Hill
  * 1830–1843: William Cathcart, 1st Earl Cathcart
  
  ## Lieutenant-Governors of Hull
  
  * 1645–1648: Robert Overton
  * 1711–1714: Bernard Granville
  * 1749–1782: Lord Robert Manners
  * 1782–1789: William Cashell
  * 1789–1801: Thomas Jones
  * 1801–1816: Francis Cunynghame
  * 1816–1854: Sir Charles Wade Thornton
  