This is an incomplete list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant for the East Riding of Yorkshire. Ensign of the Lord-Lieutenant The title Lord-Lieutenant is given to the British monarchs personal representatives around the United Kingdom. ... The East Riding of Yorkshire is a local government district in the United Kingdom. ...

• John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse 1660–1673
• James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth 1673–1679
• Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset 1682–1687
• Henry Boyle, 1st Baron Carleton 1704–?
• Peregrine Hyde Osborne, 3rd Duke of Leeds
• William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath 1721–1728
• Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham 1751–1762
• Paul Thompson, 1st Baron Wenlock 1840–1847
• Beilby Lawley, 2nd Baron Wenlock 1864–1880

The position was abolished in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972 and re-established in 1996. John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse (24 June 1614- 10 September 1689) was an English nobleman, soldier and MP, notable for his role during and after the English Civil War. ... James Crofts, later Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, 1st Duke of Buccleuch (April 9, 1649–July 15, 1685) recognised by some as James II of England and James VII of Scotland, was born in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, the son of Charles II and his mistress, Lucy Walter, who had... Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset (13 August 1662 - December 2, 1748), succeeded his brother Francis, the 5th Duke, when the latter was shot in 1678 at the age of twenty, by a Genoese gentleman, named Horatio Botti, whose wife Somerset was said to have insulted at Lerici. ... Henry Boyle, 1st Baron Carleton (12 July 1669 - 31 March 1725) was a British politician of the early eighteenth century. ... William Pulteney (1684 - July 7, 1764) was an English politician, created Earl of Bath in 1742 by King George II. The son of William Pulteney by his first wife, Mary Floyd, he was born in April 1684 into an old Leicestershire family. ... Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (May 13, 1730 – July 1, 1782) was a British Whig statesman, most notable for his two terms as Whig Prime Minister of Great Britain. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... The Local Government Act 1972 was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom, that reformed local government in England and Wales, on April 1, 1974. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...