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In 1521 Edmund Walsingham [aged 41] was appointed Lieutenant of the Tower of London.
On 29th September 1546 Walter Stonor [aged 69] was appointed Lieutenant of the Tower of London.
In 1547 Anthony Knyvet [aged 30] was appointed Lieutenant of the Tower of London.
In 1551 Arthur Darcy [aged 56] was appointed Lieutenant of the Tower of London.
In October 1552 Edward Warner [aged 41] was appointed Lieutenant of the Tower of London. He was removed on 28th July 1553.
Around 1553 John Brydges 1st Baron Chandos [aged 60] was appointed Lieutenant of the Tower of London.
In 1556 Robert Oxenbridge [aged 48] was appointed Lieutenant of the Tower of London.
Around November 1558 Edward Warner [aged 47] was re-appointed Lieutenant of the Tower of London with Thomas Cawarden of Bletchingly and Nonsuch.
Around November 1558 Thomas Cawarden of Bletchingly and Nonsuch was appointed Lieutenant of the Tower of London with Edward Warner [aged 47]
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In 1570 Owen Hopton [aged 51] was appointed Lieutenant of the Tower of London.
On 6th May 1613 Gervase Helwys [aged 51] was appointed Lieutenant of the Tower of London by King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland [aged 46] having been recommended by Henry Howard 1st Earl of Northampton [aged 73]. Gervase Helwys paid £2000 for the appointment of which £1400 went to Henry Howard 1st Earl of Northampton and £300 to Thomas Monson 1st Baronet [aged 48], Master of the Armory in the Tower, and a friend of Gervase Helwys.
On 3rd March 1617 Allen Apsley [aged 50] was appointed Lieutenant of the Tower of London.
John Evelyn's Diary. 10th December 1659. I treated privately with Colonel Morley [aged 43], then Lieutenant of the Tower, and in great trust and power, concerning delivering it to the King [aged 29], and the bringing of him in, to the great hazard of my life, but the Colonel had been my schoolfellow, and I knew would not betray me.
From 1660 to 1680 John Robinson 1st Baronet [aged 44] was appointed Lieutenant of the Tower of London.
John Evelyn's Diary. 6th February 1663. Dined at my Lord Mayor's, Sir John Robinson [aged 48], Lieutenant of the Tower.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 26th October 1664. Thence I to Sir W. Batten's [aged 63], and there sat late with him, Sir R. Ford [aged 50], and Sir John Robinson [aged 49]; the last of whom continues still the same foole he was, crying up what power he has in the City, in knowing their temper, and being able to do what he will with them. It seems the City did last night very freely lend the King [aged 34] £100,000 without any security but the King's word, which was very noble. But this loggerhead and Sir R. Ford would make us believe that they did it. Now Sir R. Ford is a cunning man, and makes a foole of the other, and the other believes whatever the other tells him. But, Lord! to think that such a man should be Lieutenant of the Tower, and so great a man as he is, is a strange thing to me. With them late and then home and with my wife to bed, after supper.
In 1688 Robert Lucas 3rd Baron Shenfield [aged 38] was appointed Lieutenant of the Tower of London.
John Evelyn's Diary. 1st October 1705. Mr. Cowper [aged 40] made Lord Keeper. Observing how uncertain great officers are of continuing long in their places, he would not accept it, unless £2,000 a year were given him in reversion when he was put out, in consideration of his loss of practice. His predecessors, how little time soever they had the Seal, usually got £100,000 and made themselves Barons. A new Secretary of State. Lord Abington [aged 32], Lieutenant of the Tower, displaced, and General Churchill [aged 49], brother to the Duke of Marlborough [aged 55], put in. An indication of great unsteadiness somewhere, but thus the crafty Whig party (as called) begin to change the face of the Court, in opposition to the High Churchmen, which was another distinction of a party from the Low Churchmen. The Parliament chose one Mr. Smith, Speaker. There had never been so great an assembly of members on the first day of sitting, being more than 450. The votes both of the old, as well as the new, fell to those called Low Churchmen, contrary to all expectation.
In 1810 General William Loftus [aged 58] was appointed Lieutenant of the Tower of London.