Recorders of the Borough of Bedford
1650 Sir Samuel Browne , resigned 1661
1661 Rt. Hon. Oliver St John Earl of Bolingbroke , resigned 1684
1684 Robert Earl of Ailesbury, died 1685
1685 Thomas Earl of Ailesbury
1689 Paulet St John 3rd Earl of Bolingbroke, died 1711
1712 Charles Lord Bruce, died 1747
1747 John Baron St John of Bletsoe, resigned 1767
1767 John Duke of Bedford
1771 Sir Robert Bernard, died 1789
1789 Francis Duke of Bedford, died 1802
1802 John Duke of Bedford
No recorder between 1835 and 1846, when the Borough recovered the privilege of holding its own Quarter Sessions
1846 Michael Prendergast
1849 Thomas Borrow Burcham
1857 M. L. Wells
1859 Richard Couch
1862 Michael Prendergast
1866 David Deedy Keene Q.L.
1870 John Thomas Abdy, resigned 1898
1899 William Russell Griffiths, died June 1910
1910 Henry Dawes Bonsey
1912 Harold John Hastings Russell, died 1926
1926 Honourable Victor A F V Russell
1948 Charles Lamand Henderson
1963 Geoffrey Dawson Lane
1966 S. Silkin Q.C., M.P.