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
References
1595 Tobias Matthews
Source: Dedication of Barnabe Barnes (c. 1569 - 1609) of his Divine Centurie of Spirituall Sonnets to:
TO THE RIGHT REVERENDE FATHER IN GOD, the Right honourable and my very good Lorde, TOBIE (by the grace of God) Bishop and Counte Palatine of Duresme and Sadberge: Increase of all true zeale, honour & perpetuall consolation of mind and bodye.
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A04549.0001.001/1:2?rgn=div1;view=fulltext