This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Durham.(This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.) * Henry Neville, 5th Earl of Westmorland 1552–? * Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon 2 August 1586 – 1595 * vacant * Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset 4 February 1615 – 20 November 1617 * Richard Neile, Bishop of Durham 20 November 1617 – 10 December 1627 * vacant * John Howson, Bishop of Durham 13 October 1628 – 6 February 1632 * Thomas Morton, Bishop of Durham 30 July 1632 – 1642 * Sir Henry Vane 1642 (Parliamentary) * Interregnum * Thomas Belasyse, 2nd Viscount Fauconberg 27 July 1660 – 1661 * John Cosin 13 September 1661 – 15 January 1672 * In commission 18 April 1672 – 19 November 1674 * Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle * William Widdri