11^th Century
● 1045-1053 Godwin, Earl of Wessex
● 1053-1066 Harold Godwinson, Earl of Wessex (later King Harold II)
● 1066 Bertram Ashburnham
● 1066 William de Peverell (appointed by the Conqueror)
● 1066-1084 Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent, •Keeper of the Coast:  Odo, Bishop of Bayeux (1066-1084)
● 1084 -1085 John de Fiennes
● 1085–1111 James de Fiennes (son of John)
● 1111–1138 John de Fiennes (son of James)

12^th Century

● 1138 Walkelin de Magminot
● 1138-1153 Prince Eustace of Boulogne (son of King Stephen)
● 1153-1154 Wakelin de Magminot
● 1154-1169 Robert Fitz-Bernard
● 1169-1187 Hugo de Mara
● 1187-1190 Alan de Valeines (or Valoines)
● 1190-1195 Matthew de Clera
● 1195-1201 William de Wrotham

13th Century
● 1201-1202 Thomas Basset, Lord Hedenden
● 1202-1203 Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent
● 1203-1204 William de Huntingfield
● 1204-1207 William de Longspee, •Keeper of the Coast:3^rd Earl of Salisbury(known as ‘Longsword’ )William de Warenne, 6^th ● Earl of Surrey (1204-1205)
● 1207-1213 Geoffrey Fitzpier, Earl of Essex
● 1213-1215 William Briwere, Lord Torbay •Keeper of the Coast:● William de Warenne (1214)
● 1215-1220  1st Earl of Kent, Hubert de Burgh •Keeper of the Coast:● Hubert de Burgh, (1215-1220)
● 1220 Henry de Braibroc
● 1221-1223 Robert de Nereford (Hereford)
● 1223 Hugh de Windsor
● 1223-1224 Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury
● 1224-1225 Geoffery de Lucy, Lord Newington
● 1225 Hubert de Hoese (Hose or Hussey)
● 1225-1226 Geoffrey de Surland
● 1226-1227 William de Averanch, Lord Folkestone •Keeper of the Coast:● William de Averanch (1st true Lord Warden & Constable)
● 1227 Bertram de Crioill, Lord Albury Bertram de Crioill
● 1227-1232 Hubert de Burgh, 1^st Earl of Kent Robert de Auberville (1228-1235)
● 1232 Henry de Hoese, Lord Hastings
● 1232-1235 Stephen, Lord de Segrove (Segrave) •Keeper of the Coast:● Walerland Teutonicus (1235)
● 1235 Humphrey de Bohun, 3^rd Earl of Hereford •Keeper of the Coast:● Hamo de Crevequer, Lord Leeds (1235)
● 1236 Bertram de Crioill •Keeper of the Coast:● Peter de Rivaux (1236)
● 1236-1241 Henry de Hoese, Lord Hastings •Keeper of the Coast:● Humphrey de Bohun, 3^rd Earl of Hereford (1241)
● 1241-1242 Peter de Savoy, Earl of Richmond •Keeper of the Coast:● Peter de Savoy
● 1242-1255 Bertram de Crioill
● 1256-1258 Reginald de Cobham of Allington, 1st Baron Cobham •Keeper of the Coast:● Reginald de Cobham
● 1258 Sir Roger Northwode •Keeper of the Coast:Sir Roger Northwode
● 1258 Nicholas de Moels, Lord Caddebury •Keeper of the Coast:● Nicholas de Moels
● 1258-1259 Richard de Grey, Lord Condor Richard de Grey
● 1259-1261 Hugh de Bigod •Keeper of the Coast:● Nicholas de Crioill  (1260-1263)
● 1261-1262 Robert de Walerand, Lord Kilpek
● 1262 Walter de Burgsted •Keeper of the Coast: ● Walter de Burgsted (1263)
● 1263 Robert de Walerand
● 1263 Richard de Grey, Lord Condor •Keeper of the Coast:● Hamo de Crevequer, Baron Chatham (1263)
● 1263 Prince Edmund (son of Henry III) jointly with Robert de Gascoyne •Keeper of the Coast:● Humphrey de Bohun, 3^rd ● Earl of Hereford  (1264)
● 1263 Henry de Sandwich, Bishop of London
● 1263 John de Haia
● 1263 Richard de Grey, Lord Condor
● 1263-1264 Sir Roger de Leybourne………..
● 1264-1265 Henry de Montfort…………
● 1265 Matthew de Hastings…………
● 1265 Sir Roger de Leybourne…………
● 1265-1266 Prince Edward, (King Edward I)…………
● 1266 -1267 Sir Matthew de Bezille………..

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1264-1267: The Second Baron’s War – a period of great instability, when Dover Castle changed hands several times in quick succession.

● 1267-1298 Sir Stephen de Pencester
● 1298-1306 Robert de Burghersh, 1st Baron Burghersh

14th Century
● 1306-1307 Henry Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham
● 1307-1315 Robert de Kendall
● 1315 Henry Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham
● 1315-1320 Robert de Kendall
● 1320-1321 Bartholomew Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere
● 1321 Sir Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester
● 1321-1323 Edmund “of Woodstock”, Earl of Kent (son of Edward I)
● 1323-1324 Sir John Peche, Baron Wormleighton
● 1324-1325 Robert de Kendall
● 1325-1326 Ralph Basset, 3rd Baron Basset de Drayton
● 1326-1327 Robert de Kendall
● 1327-1330 Bartholomew de Burghersh, 1st Baron Burghersh
● 1330-1343 William Clinton, 1st Earl of Huntingdon
● 1343-1355 Bartholomew de Burghersh, 1st Baron Burghersh
● 1355-1359 Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March
● 1359-1360 John Baron Beauchamp de Somerset
● 1361-1364 Sir Richard de Herle of Broughton
● 1364-1369 Ralph, Baron Spigurnell
● 1369-1371 Sir Richard de Peinbrugge
● 1371-1372 Andrew de Guldeford
● 1372-1376 William Latymer, 4^th Baron Latymer
● 1376 Sir Thomas Reines
● 1376 -1381 Edmund of Langley, Earl of Cambridge and Duke of York
● 1381-1384 Sir Robert Assheton
● 1384-1388 Sir Simon de Burley
● 1388-1393 John Devereux, 2^nd Baron Devereux
● 1393-1396 John Beaumont, 4^th Baron Beaumont
● 1396-1398 Edmund of Langley, Duke of York and Aumerle
● 1398-1399 John Beaufort, 1st Marquess of Dorset
● 1399-1409 Sir Thomas Erpyngham

15th Century
● 1409-1413 Henry, Prince of Wales (King Henry V)
● 1413-1415 Thomas Fitzalan, 12th Earl of Arundel and 10th Earl of Surrey
● 1415-1447 Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester
● 1447-1450 James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele
● 1450-1460 Humphrey Stafford, 1^st Duke of Buckingham
● 1460 Richard Woodville, 1^st Earl Rivers
● 1460-1470 Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick
● 1470 William Fitz-Alan, Earl of Arundel
● 1470-1471 Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick
● 1471-1487 William Fitz-Alan, Earl of Arundel
● 1488-1492 Philip Fitz Lewes
● 1492-1493 Sir William Scott of Brabourne
● 1493-1509 Prince Henry, Duke of York (King Henry VIII)

16th Century
● 1509-1521 Sir Edward Poynings (previously deputised for Prince Henry from 1505)1521George Neville, 5th Baron Bergavenny
● 1521-1533 Sir Edward Guilford
● 1533-1536 George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford1536Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset
● 1536-1539 Sir Thomas Cheyne
● 1539-1542 Arthur Plantagenet, 1^st Viscount Lisle
● 1542-1558 Sir Thomas Cheyne
● 1558-1597 William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham
● 1597-1603 Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham

17^th Century
● 1604-1614 Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton
● 1614-1615 Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset
● 1615-1624 Edward Zouche, 11^th Baron Zouche of Haryngworth
● 1624-1628 George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
● 1628-1640 Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk
● 1640-1642 James Stewart (Stuart), 1^st Duke of Richmond and 4^th Duke of Lennox
● 1642-1646 Sir Edward Boys
● 1646-1648 Major John Boys
● 1648-1651 Sir Algernon Sidney
● 1651-1654 Lt-Colonel Thomas Kelsey
● 1654 -1657 Admiral Robert Blake, jointly ‘in commission’ with Colonel Lambert (1654-1659)
● 1660 Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Winchelsea
● 1660-1669 Prince James, Duke of York and Albany
● 1669-1689 Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Winchelsea
● 1689-1691 Colonel John Beaumont
● 1691-1702 Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney

18^th Century
● 1702-1708 Prince George of Denmark (consort of Queen Anne)
● 1708-1713 Lionel Sackville, 7th Earl of Dorset
● 1713-1714 James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde
● 1714-1717 Lionel Sackville, 7th Earl of Dorset
● 1717-1728 John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester
● 1728-1765 Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset
● 1765-1778 Robert D’arcy, 4th Earl of Holderness
● 1778-1792 Frederick Lord North (2nd Earl of Guilford from 1790)
● 1792-1805 William Pitt the Younger

19^th Century
● 1806-1828 Robert Banks Jenkinson, Lord Hawkesbury, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
● 1829-1852 Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
● 1853-1860 James Andrew Broun Ramsey, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie
● 1861-1865 Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
● 1866-1891 George Leveson Gower, 2nd Earl Granville
● 1891 William Henry Smith
● 1891-1895 Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of  Dufferin and Ava
● 1895-1903 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

20^th Century
● 1904-1905 George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Curzon of Kedleston
● 1905-1907 Prince George, Prince of Wales (King George V)
● 1908-1913 Thomas Brassey of Hythe, 1st Earl Brassey
● 1913-1934 William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp
● 1934-1935 Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading
● 1936-1941 Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon
● 1941-1965 Sir Winston Churchill
● 1966-1978 Sir Robert Menzies
● 1978-2002 HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

21^st Century
● 2004-2022 Admiral of the Fleet, the Lord Boyce