List of Vice-Admirals of Essex

This is a list of people who have served as Vice-Admiral of Essex.


 * Richard Cornwallis 1558–?
 * Lewis David 1561–1575 jointly with
 * Richard Wyche 1561–1575
 * Thomas Ive 1576– ''jointly with
 * William Ive 1577–?
 * Philip Basset bef. 1580–1581
 * Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford 1581–1582
 * Clement Newce 1582–1584
 * vacant
 * Henry Bellingham 1585–1587 jointly with
 * Thomas Writington 1586–1587
 * vacant
 * George Wood 1592–?
 * Francis Burnell bef. 1593 – 1599
 * ? Wingfield ?–1609
 * William Sammes 1609–1611
 * vacant
 * Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick 1620–1649
 * English Interregnum
 * Sir John Bramston 1661–1691
 * Edward Cary 1691–1692
 * Sir Isaac Rebow 1692–1702
 * Sir Charles Barrington, 5th Baronet 1702–1705
 * Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers 1705–1712
 * Sir Charles Barrington, 5th Baronet 1712–1714
 * Thomas Middleton 1714–1715
 * Robert Honywood 1715–1735
 * James Waldegrave, 1st Earl Waldegrave 1735–1741
 * vacant
 * William Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford 1748–1781
 * vacant
 * John Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden 1795–1797
 * Richard Griffin, 2nd Baron Braybrooke 1798–1825
 * Henry Maynard, 3rd Viscount Maynard 1825–1865
 * Thomas Trevor, 22nd Baron Dacre 1865–1869