Lord Admiral

From British Offices and Honours

Name	Entered office	Left office	Party	Notes
The Earl of Dorset from 1416, the Duke of Exeter	1413	1426
The Duke of Bedford	1426	1435
The Duke of Exeter	1435	1447
The Duke of Suffolk	1447	1450
The Duke of Exeter	1450	1461
The Earl of Kent	1462	1462
The Duke of Gloucester	1462	1470
The Earl of Warwick	1470	1471
The Duke of Gloucester	1471	1483
The Duke of Norfolk	1483	1485
The Earl of Oxford	1485	1513
Sir Edward Howard	1513	1513
Lord Howard from 1514, known as Earl of Surrey; from 1524, the Duke of Norfolk	1513	1525
The Duke of Richmond	1525	1536
Sir William Fitzwilliam from 1537, the Earl of Southampton	1536	1540
Lord Russell	1540	1542
The Earl of Hertford	1542	1543
The Viscount Lisle	1543	1547
The Lord Seymour of Sudeley	1547	1549
The Earl of Warwick	1549	1550
The Lord Clinton	1550	1554
The Lord Howard of Effingham	1554	1558
The Lord Clinton from 1572, the Earl of Lincoln	1558	1585
The Lord Howard of Effingham from 1597, the Earl of Nottingham	1585	1619
The Marquess of Buckingham from 1623, the Duke of Buckingham	1619	1628
in commission	1628	1638
The Earl of Northumberland	1638	1642
in commission	1642	1646
The Duke of York	1660	1673
in commission	1673	May 1684
Charles II	May 1684	February 1685
James II	February 1685	December 1688
Sir Arthur Herbert	February 1689	March 1689
in commission	March 1689	26 January 1702
The Earl of Pembroke	26 January 1702	20 May 1702	Tory
Prince George of Denmark	20 May 1702	28 October 1708
The Earl of Pembroke	29 November 1708	8 November 1709	Tory
in commission	8 November 1709	2 May 1827
The Duke of Clarence	2 May 1827	19 September 1828	Tory