This is a list of people who have served as Custos Rotulorum of the North Riding of Yorkshire.

• Sir Leonard Beckwith bef. 1544 – aft. 1547
• Sir Henry Gates bef. 1562–1589
• John Stanhope, 1st Baron Stanhope 1545–1621
• Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby 1621–1626
• Sir David Foulis, 1st Baronet 1626–1629
• Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby 1629–1640
• Henry Belasyse 1641–1646
• Interregnum
• Thomas Belasyse, 1st Earl Fauconberg 1660–1700
• Charles Boyle, 2nd Earl of Burlington 1701–1704
• Henry Boyle, 1st Baron Carleton 1704–1715
• Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington 1715–1722
• Conyers Darcy 1722
• Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington 1722–1733
• Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham 1733–1750
• Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham 1751–1762
• Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness 1762–1765
• Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham 1765–1782
• Henry Belasyse, 2nd Earl Fauconberg 1782–1802

For later custodes rotulorum, see Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire.

• Institute of Historical Research - Custodes Rotulorum 1544-1646
• Institute of Historical Research - Custodes Rotulorum 1660-1828