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Jennifer Tolhurst
Tolhurst (left) with the then Prince of Wales in March 2022

Lord Lieutenant of Essex
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 August 2017
Monarchs	Elizabeth II Charles III
Preceded by	John Petre, 18th Baron Petre
High Sheriff of Essex
In office 2005–2006
Monarch	Elizabeth II

Personal details
Born	Jennifer Mary Tolhurst 1951 (age 73–74) Northern Ireland
Spouse	Philip Tolhurst (m. 1972)
Children	3

Jennifer Mary Tolhurst (born 1951) is the current Lord-Lieutenant of Essex. She has been in the position since 5 August 2017.

Biography

Tolhurst started the Danbury and Little Baddow branch of the NSPCC and chaired the Prince's Youth Business Trust in Essex. She was a magistrate and vice chairman of the governors of New Hall School. She remains vice-president of the Essex Community Foundation, serves on Essex University Court, is an assessor for the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service and is vice-chairman of the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee. She was High Sheriff of Essex in 2005.

Tolhurst lives in Danbury with her husband, Philip. They have three grown-up children and seven grandchildren.

She succeeded Lord Petre, 18th Baron of the Petre family, whose ancestral family home is at Ingatestone Hall, who had been the lord-lieutenant of Essex for the previous fifteen years but stood down after turning 75 – the customary age of retirement for the Sovereign's representatives.

References

Prime Minister's Office (22 June 2017). "Lord-Lieutenant of Essex: Jennifer Tolhurst". UK Government Digital Service. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
Martino, Matthew. "Jennifer Tolhurst DL appointed as Lord-Lieutenant of Essex". Essex-TV. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
"Appointment of Sheriffs". The London Gazette. 29 March 2005. Retrieved 19 May 2019.

This article incorporates text published under the British Open Government Licence v3.0: Prime Minister's Office (22 June 2017). "Lord-Lieutenant of Essex: Jennifer Tolhurst". UK Government Digital Service. Retrieved 13 January 2019.

v t e Lord Lieutenants of Essex
16th Century	John Petre John de Vere Robert Dudley William Cecil
17th Century	Robert Radclyffe Robert Rich Richard Weston William Maynard James Hay Aubrey de Vere Christopher Monck Thomas Petre Aubrey de Vere
18th Century	Francis North Richard Savage Henry St John Henry Howard Charles Howard Henry O'Brien Benjamin Mildmay William Nassau de Zuylestein John Waldegrave John Griffin Richard Griffin
19th Century	Henry Maynard Thomas Crosbie William Trevor Sir Thomas Burch Western Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue John Strutt
20th Century	Francis Greville Amelius Lockwood Sir Richard Beale Colvin Sir Francis Henry Douglas Charlton Whitmore Sir John Ruggles-Brise Sir Andrew Lewis Robin Neville
21st Century	John Petre Jennifer Tolhurst

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