Below is a list of former innkeepers. The first recorded when the inn was a Kentish “Ale House”.
| 1516 | Septimus Quylle |
| 1545 | Elanor Quylle |
| 1552 | Samuel Bayley |
| 1563 | James T Fagg |
| 1578 | James Bushell |
| 1584 | Johnathan Epps |
| 1598 | William Byham |
| 1607 | James Finn |
| 1618 | Jeremiah Wigton |
| 1623 | Cedric Rayme |
| 1631 | George Champion Barrington |
| 1642 | William Longford |
| 1658 | William Shoesmith |
| 1663 | Daniel Deeds |
| 1670 | Amos Dwyford |
| 1681 | Johnathan Carter |
| 1694 | Thomas Dennard |
| 1705 | Anne Dennard |
| 1710 | Julius Whitcomb |
| 1723 | William Young |
| 1733 | Daniel Cummings |
| 1748 | James Kite |
| 1755 | Joseph Purfield |
| 1769 | Johnathan Green |
| 1779 | Philip H Sole |
| 1783 | Henry Shore |
| 1797 | Thomas Renwick |
| 1805 | Joseph Rhome |
| 1811 | Samuel Marks |
| 1824 | George Pearce |
| 1835 | Joseph Oliver Capon |
| 1887 | Miss Hariet Capon |
| 1905 | Philip Usher |
| 1907 | John Bentley |
| 1909 | Mary Bentley |
| 1913 | Sidney Overall |
| 1915 | George William Medhurst |
| 1922 | Charles H Warner |
| 1924 | James Cummings Frost |
| 1927 | George Frise |
| 1930 | John Allchin |
| 1934 | Charles Newall |
| 1945 | Frank Sills |
| 1953 | Thomas Luck |
| 1959 | Charles Fuller |
| 1965 | Peter Meeden |
| 1970 | Leslie Arthur Broughton |
| 1977 | Leonard William Marjoram |
| 1982 | Peter Robin Kirby |
| 1985 | Roger John Haigh Corley |
| 1992 | Mick Wiggins & Nicola Stotesbury |
| 1997 | John Brown |
| 1998 | Vince Galloway & Janet Smith |
| 1999 | Vince & Katy Galloway |
| 2002 | Jan & Ben Benger |
| 2004 | Jon & Helen Sutton |
In late 2019 several of the local regulars presented Jon & Helen with a handmade shield denoting all landlords of the Duke since it’s first to now. The shield now hangs in the pub bar for all to see and enjoy.
