1603: Sir Marmaduke Whitchurch
1613: Charles Poyntz
[5]
1618:
1622:
1623: Sir William Brownlow
[6]
Charles I, 1625–1649
1625:
1626:
1627:
1628:
1629:
1630:
1631:
1632:
1633:
1634:
1635:
1636:
English Interregnum, 1649–1660
1655: Sir George Acheson, 3rd Bt
[7]
1656: Sir George Acheson, 3rd Bt
[7]
1659:
Charles II, 1660–1685
1673:
1674:
1675:
1676:
1677:
1678: Godfrey Walker
1679:
1680:
1681:
1682:
1683:
1684: George Blacker
[8]
James II, 1685–1688
1685:
1686: Marcus Clerk
[9]
1687:
1688: Hamlett Obins
[10]
William III, 1689–1702
Anne, 1702–1714
1702: Roger Hall
[8]
1703:
1704:
1705:
1706:
1707:
1708:
1709:
1710:
1711:
1712:
1713:
George I, 1714–1727
1714: Edward Bond
[12]
1715: John Richardson
[13]
1716: James Maison
[12]
1717: Oliver St John
[12]
1718: John Maxwell
[12]
1719: John Bolton
[12]
1720: Henry Richardson
[12]
1721: Sir William Johnston
[12]
1722: Joshua Johnston
[12]
1723: Thomas Tipping
[12]
1724: Thomas Clarke
[12]
1725: Anthony Madden
[12]
1726: Francis Obre
[12]
George II, 1727–1760
George III, 1760–1820
George IV, 1820–1830
1825: Thomas Atkinson
[20]
1826: Acheson St George
[21]
1827: William Olpherts
[22]
1828: Barry Fox
[23]
1829: Hunt Walsh Chambre of Hawthorn Hill
[24]
William IV, 1830–1837
Victoria, 1837–1901
Edward VII, 1901–1910
George V, 1910–1936
1911:
1912:
1913:
1914: Hunt Walsh Leech
[44]
1915:
1916: William Byers
1917:
1918:
1919:
1920:
1921:
1922: Thomas Bowen Johnston
[46]
1923: Thomas Trew Maclean
[47]
1924: James Edward Calvert
[48]
1925: Thomas Henry White
[49]
1926:
John Charters Boyle
[50]
1927: Samuel Alexander Bell
[51]
1928: William M. Clow
[52]
1929: Charles Barclay Macpherson Chambré
[53]
1930: Thomas Grevilie Sinton
[54]
1931: Noel Stephen Smith
[55]
1932: Gilbert Evelyn Barcroft
[56]
1933: David Malcomson Barcroft
[57]
1934: Arthur Dawson Allen
[58]
1935: Hector Charles Chatterton Deane
[59]
1936: Richard Henry Stephens Richardson
[60]
George VI, 1936–1952
1937: Arthur Delacherois Irwin
[61]
1938: William Edward Greeves
[62]
1939: George Valentine Crossley Irwin
[63]
1940: James Edwards Harden
[64]
1941: George Scott
[65]
1942: Thomas Averell Shillington
[66]
1943: Alfred William Cowdy
[67]
1944: Bunbury Archer Atkinson
[68]
1945: John Stephen Wakefield Richardson
[69]
1946: George Norman Proctor
[70]
1947: Robert McKean Cowdy
[71]
1948: Archibald Dunlap Gibson
[72]
1949: Alexander Reginald Wakefield Richardson
[73]
1950: George Fitzroy Gillespie
[74]
1951: Ynyr Alfred Burges
[75]
Elizabeth II, 1952–present
1952: Walter Albert Nevill MacGeough-Bond
[76]
1953: Cecil Brown
[77]
1954: William Alexander Mullen
[78]
1955: Harold Brown
[79]
1956: James Nicholson Brown
[80]
1957: Edward Kennedy Walkington
[81]
1958: Alleyn Cardwell Moore
[82]
1959: Richard Graves Johnston
[83]
1960: James Robert Bargrave Armstrong
[84]
1961: Henry Alwyn White
[85]
1962: Francis Edward Nangle
[86]
1963: Acheson Harden Glendinning
[87]
1964: George Edwin McCaw
[88]
1965: Michael Henry Armstrong
[89]
1966: George Dougan
[90]
1967:
James Matthew Stronge
[91]
1968: Thomas Carter Johnston
[92]
1969: Alexander Edmond Knight
[93]
1970: John Fitzroy Gillespie
[94]
1971: Geoffrey Alastair Nisbet Boyne
[95]
1972: Kenneth McCleery
[96]
1973: W. Bernard Cowdy
[97]
1974: Henry William Francis Reid
[98]
1975: Henry George Glendinning
[99]
1976: Alexander Hugh O'Brien Greer
[100]
1977: Donald Henry Stevenson
[101]
1978: Ronald McIlroy Wilson
[102]
1979:
Frederick Michael Alexander Torrens-Spence
[103]
1980: John Reginald Miller
[104]
1981: Alexander Hugh Courtney
[105]
1982: Andrew Alwyn White
[106]
1983: J. H. H. Balmer
[107]
1984: W. H. Jordan
[108]
1985: E. B. Wilson
[109]
1986:
1987:
1988:
1989:
1990:
1991: John Daniel Thompson
[110]
1992: James Rochester Nelson
[111]
1993: J. N. Greenlee
[112]
1994: J. E. Lamb
[113]
1995: John C. K. Magowan
[114]
1996: Margaret Patton
[115]
1997: John Oliver Woods
[116]
1998: David Eric Dorman
[117]
1999: Anne E. Cullen
[118]
2000: Archibald Thomas Laughlan Gibson
[119]
2001: Patrick Stephen Kellett
[120]
2002: Mary Catherine Dixon
[121]
2003: Barbara Ann Gillespie
[122]
2004: Caroline Bridget Good
[123]
2005: Leslie Victor Johnston of Armagh
[124]
2006: Ralph Edward Cope Cowdy of Loughgall
[125]
2007: Colin Wallace Mathews
[126]
2008: Desmond Robert David Mitchell
[127]
2009: Gerard Patrick Millar
[128]
2010: John Niall Collen
2011: Dr Peter W.B. Colvin of Hockley
[129]
2012: Dr Edmund Peter Beckett of Armagh
[130]
2013: James Magowan of Loughgilly
[131]
2014: Paul Reaney of Armagh
[132]
2015: Anna Louise Shepherd of Tandragee
[133]
2016: James Arthur Crummie of Portadown
[134]
2017: Godfrey William McCartney of Killylea
[135]
2018: Catherine Mary Adams of Craigavon
[136]
2019: Ian James Chapman of Craigavon
[137]
2020: Michael Frederick Dickson of Armagh
[138]
2021: Dr Alan Manson Turtlem of Richhill
[139]
2022: Henry Gabriel McMullen of Armagh
[140]
Charles III, 2022–present
2023: Gary Myles Dickson, of Armagh
[141]
Notes
‡ Stood as Member of Parliament
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