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See also the Council of Wales for the advisory council established in 1948. The Council of Wales and the Marches was an English regional administrative body (similar to the Council of the North) covering all of Wales and the English counties known as the Welsh Marches.
The council was established in the 15th century and initially responsible for governing the lands held under the Principality of Wales, the lands directly administered by the English crown following the Edwardian conquest of Wales in the 13th century. Following the full annexation of Wales into England with Laws of Wales acts in the 16th century, the council gained the Welsh Marcher lands to administer as well.
Its headquarters were in Ludlow Castle, and its abolition on 25 July 1689 led to the castle's dereliction.

Presidents of the Council

John Alcock 1473–1500
William Smyth 1501–1512
Godfrey Blyth 1512–1525
John Vesey 1525–1534
Rowland Lee 1534–1543
John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland 1549–1550
William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke 1550–1553
Nicholas Heath 1553–1555
William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke 1555–1558
Gilbert Bourne 1558–1559
John Williams, 1st Baron Williams de Thame 1559
Sir Henry Sidney 1560–1586
Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke 1586–1601
Edward la Zouche, 11th Baron Zouche 1602–1607
Ralph Eure, 3rd Baron Eure 1607–1616
Thomas Gerard, 1st Baron Gerard 1616–1617
William Compton, 1st Earl of Northampton 1617–1630
John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater 1631–1642
Richard Vaughan, 2nd Earl of Carbery 1660–1672
Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort 1672–1689?
Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield 1689

Vice-Presidents of the Council

Sir James Croft 1550–1551

Hugh Paulet

John Whitgift in 1577

Sir Richard Lewkenor 1601?

Gervase Babington 1605–?Further Information

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