This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of Denbighshire. Custos rotulorum, (keeper of the rolls) the keeper of the English county records, is by virtue of that office the highest civil officer in the county. ... Denbighshire (Welsh: Sir Ddinbych) is a county in North Wales. ...

• Sir John Salusbury bef. 1544 – c. 1548
• Sir John Salusbury bef. 1558–1568
• Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester bef. 1573–1588
• Sir Thomas Egerton bef. 1594–1596
• Roger Puleston 1596–1618
• Evan Lloyd 1618 – aft. 1621
• Sir Thomas Myddelton 1626 – aft. 1636
• Sir Thomas Salusbury, 2nd Baronet 1642–1643
• William Wynne 1643
• William Price 1643–1646
• Interregnum
• Sir Thomas Myddelton 1660–1666
• Edward Herbert, 3rd Baron Herbert of Chirbury 1666–1678
• Sir Thomas Myddelton, 2nd Baronet 1678–1684
• Sir Richard Myddelton, 3rd Baronet 1684–1688
• William Herbert, 1st Marquess of Powis 1688–1689
• Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet 1689
• William Williams 1689–1690
• Sir Richard Myddelton, 3rd Baronet 1690–1699
• Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet 1699–1702
• Sir Richard Myddelton, 3rd Baronet 1702–1716
• Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 3rd Baronet 1716–1748

For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire. Robert Dudley, by Nicholas Hilliard, 1576. ... There have been several well-known men with this name in history. ... Portrait of Robert Cotton, commissioned 1626 and attributed to Cornelius Johnson (or Janssen), (1593-1661). ... William Williams has been the name of several notable individuals: Sir William Williams (1634-1700) was a lawyer, MP for Chester and later for Beaumaris, and the first Welshman to become Speaker of the House of Commons, a post which he held from 1680 to 1685. ... Portrait of Robert Cotton, commissioned 1626 and attributed to Cornelius Johnson (or Janssen), (1593-1661). ...

References

• Institute of Historical Research