Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports: Difference between revisions

The Wardenship of the Cinque Ports is an ancient post held in right of the Kent ports of

Originally the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports oversaw the running of the Cinque Ports and maintaining their defences. Today the role is largely a sinecure but does confer the right to fly a unique standard:
Flag of the Cinque Ports.

Flag of the Cinque Ports (flagspot.net)

With thanks to Rob Raeside (Director): Flags of the World, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada.

The title is one of the higher honours bestowed by the

• The Earl of Huntingdon
  , 1330
• incomplete
• The Lord Devereux
  , 1387
• The Lord Beaumont, 1392
• incomplete
• The Lord Bergavenny, 16th c.
• incomplete
• The Lord Zouche, 1615-1625
• The Duke of Buckingham, 1625-1628 (?)
• The Earl of Suffolk, 1628-1640 (?)
• The Duke of Richmond and Lennox
  , 1641-1642
• incomplete
• The Duke of York and Albany, 1660-1673
• incomplete
• The Earl of Romney, 1691-1702
• incomplete
• The Earl of Dorset
  , 1708-1712
• The Duke of Ormonde, 1712-1715
• The Earl of Leicester
  , 1717-1727 (?)
• The Duke of Dorset
  , 1727-1765
• The Earl of Holdernesse
  , 1765-1778
• The Earl of Guilford
  (Lord North), 1778-1792
• William Pitt the Younger, 1792-1806
• The Earl of Liverpool
  , 1806-1827
• The Duke of Wellington, 1829-1852
• incomplete
• The Viscount Palmerston, 1861-1865
• The Earl Granville
  , 1865-1891
• William Henry Smith, 1891
• The Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, 1892-1895
• The Marquess of Salisbury
  , 1895-1903
• The Marquess Curzon
  , 1904-1905
• The Prince of Wales
  , 1905-1907
• The Earl Brassey, 1908-1913
• The Earl Beauchamp, 1913-1934
• The Marquess of Reading, 1934-1935
• The Marquess of Willingdon, 1936-1941
• Sir Winston Churchill, 1941-1965
• Sir Robert Menzies, 1965-1978
• Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
  , 1978-2002

No further apointments have yet been made, and it is expected to be some time before these isles are again threatened from state sponsored invasion.

At this time the post is held in Royal prerogative.

Politics in history.

The erosion of Royal prerogative under New Labour: The challenge.

I am not sure if this section is just uninformed speculation or opinion!, but facts need recording however distasteful.

The post is currently vacant, although Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela have both been suggested for the honour.

The current British government has delayed the appointment of a replacement to this post in its 'Thatcherite' shelf cleaning zeal for modern administration, and locally a lot of ill feeling has been expressed because of these events, the backlash of government conciliation with other world states has perhaps reflected the need to investigate further, and has it may be argued locally spurred the British parliamentary opposition (Conservative) someway to invest its leadership in a local man, (the Right. Hon. Mr. Michael Howard, MP.), as perhaps suitable to the task.

(Given that it is obvious to anyone with half a brain cell that Blaire is after the job!).

Conclusion.

The whole device of public consent vested in the procedure of democratic rule in the UK is now under review in determining the UK governmental legitimacy for the right to declare a parliament, the peculiarities in it role of diplomatic appointments to the

External Links

• Official Confederation of the Cinque Ports
• Cinque Ports 1155-1500
• Kent Resources Cinque Ports page
• flagspot.net Flags of the World Website