List of chancellors of Durham

This is a list of those who have served as Chancellor of County Durham:

• 1655–?: Thomas Widdrington
• 1787–1788: John Scott
• 1788–1791: Sir John Mitford
• 1791–1798: Sir Thomas Manners-Sutton
• 1798–1818: Samuel Romilly
• 1818–1835: Robert Hopper Williamson
• 1835–1846: Sir Charles Wetherell
• 1847–1851: Richard Torin Kindersley
• 1851–1871: Christopher Temple
• 1871–1887: James Fleming
• 1887–1892: Gainsford Bruce
• 1892–1905: Thomas Milvain
• 1905–1915: John Scott Fox
• 1915–1930: Edward Tindal Atkinson
• 1930–1936: Sir Henry Arthur Colefax
• 1936–1950: Charles Paley Scott
• 1950–1958: John Charlesworth
• 1958–1959: James Neville Gray
• 1959–1960: Arthur Geoffrey Neale Cross
• 1960–1969: Henry Edwin Salt
• 1969–1971: Hugh Elvet Francis