Note: Some of these offices were continued from the Earldom of Cornwall. Offices Lord Steward and Lord Warden of the Stannaries in Cornwall and Devon See Lord Warden of the Stannaries Vice-Admiral of Cornwall See List of Vice-Admirals of Cornwall High Sheriff of Cornwall See High Sheriff of Cornwall Chancellor and Keeper of the Great Seal (1476–1867?) 1476 Sir William Allington 1490 John Arundell, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield 1502 Robert Frost ? John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury 1610?–12? Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet 1616?–17 Sir Francis Bacon 1617–? Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet 17? –17? Nicholas Lechmere, 1st Baron Lechmere 1729–40 Alexander Denton 1740–51: Sir Thomas Bootle vacant 1802 Thomas Erskine 1806–15 William Adam 1816–18? John Leach 1843–67? Thomas Pemberton Leigh Keeper of the Privy Seal (1846?–1933) 1846? Sir William Gibson-Craig, Bt 1852 Marquess of Chandos 1853 Lord Alfred Hervey 1855 The Viscount Monck 1858 Henry Brand 1858 Henry Whitmore 1859 Sir William Alexander, Bt 1863 Sir William Dunbar, Bt 1865 Herbert William Fisher 1870 The Earl of Leicester 1901–06 The Earl Spencer 1907 The Earl of Mount Edgcumbe 1913–33 The Lord Clinton see Lord Warden of the Stannaries since 1933 Receiver-General (1400–present) 1400 John Waterton 1413 John Willecotes 1422 John Copleston Jnr 1422 Thomas Congreve 1423 Lewis John 1433 Robert Whittingham 1439 Thomas Gloucester 1444 John Brecknock 1456 Robert Whittingham 1461 William, Lord Hastings 1473 Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers 1483 Sir John Sapcotes 1485 Sir Robert Willoughby (later 1st Lord Willoughby de Broke) 1503 Sir Richard Nanfan 1507 Sir John Arundell 1533 Sir Thomas Arundell 1553 Sir Henry Gates 1553 Sir Edward Waldegrave 1553 John Coswarth 1574 Thomas Cosoworth 1586 Sir Francis Godolphin 1604 Sir Richard Smith 1618 Thomas Smyth 1637 Sir David Cunningham 1638 Robert Napier of Punknoll 1643 Richard Nicholl 1646 Arthur Upton 1650 George Crompton 1650 Gabriel Tailor 1709–12 Robert Corker 1715–20 Edward Eliot 1720–31 Robert Corker 1731–36 Edward Penrose of Penrose Law Suite 1749 bef. 1740–48? Richard Eliot 1751 Edward Craggs-Eliot, 1st Baron Eliot 1804 Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1807 The Viscount Lake 1808 Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1816 Sir John McMahon, 1st Baronet 1817 Lord William Gordon 1823 Sir William Knighton, Bt 1830? Sir Henry Wheatley, Bt 1849–62 Office abolished. 1862 Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps 1866 Sir Thomas Myddleton-Biddulph 1878 Sir William Thomas Knollys 1883 Sir John Rose, Bt 1888 Sir Robert Kingscote 1908 The Lord Revelstoke 1929–36 Sir Edward Peacock 1961–73 The Lord