- High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire
The
High Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. Formerly the High Sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the centuries most of the responsibilities associated with the post have been transferred elsewhere or are now defunct, so that its functions are now largely ceremonial. The High Sheriff changes every MarchPreviously, from 1068 until 1449 the position existed as
High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and the Royal Forests .See also:
Sheriff of Nottingham 17th century
*1610: John Molyneux of
Teversall Manor "A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England Ireland and Scotland" 2nd Edition (1844) John and John Bernard Burke.p360 Google Books]
*1612: John Molyneux ofTeversall Manor
*1686: Thomas Hewitt [LondonGazette | issue=2094 | startpage=2 | date=1685-12-10]
*1687: Darcy Molyneux ofTeversall Manor 18th century
*1766: John Bell of
Colston Bassett [ [http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/young1942/chapter4.htm Nottinghamshore History o]
*1770: Urban Hall ofMansfield Woodhouse [ [http://books.google.com/books?f Colston Bassettid=jZK6Yp2NLK8C&pg=PT29&lpg=PT29&dq=%22urban+hall%22+mansfield&source=web&ots=KdO1PYgu-c&sig=n3MTcGTZXht_kPlhaVIUSkFrzPM&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result Visitation of Ireland, Joseph Jackson Howard, Frederick Arthur Crisp, reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Company, 1973] ] [ [http://www.library.utoronto.ca/fisher/collections/findaids/mansfield.pdf Appointment of Urban Hall to the Commission of Cornet in the Royal Regiment of the Horse Guards, Aug. 23, 1755, A Guide to the Mansfield Woodhouse Collection, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, library.utoronto.ca] ]19th century
*1830: John Coke, of
Mansfield Woodhouse ["Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry" (1847) [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YdIKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA241&lpg=PA241&dq=%22rev+d+ewes+coke%22&source=web&ots=qCtpqVdc5F&sig=6gNZEaEi3oYWED_fKyiXdqC0vZo&hl=en page 241] (accessed 28 March 2008)] [LondonGazette|issue=18652|startpage=257|endpage=258|date=2 February 1830|accessdate=2008-09-21]
*1831: Thomas Moore, of Ruddington [LondonGazette|issue=18772|startpage=194|endpage=195|date=1 February 1831|accessdate=2008-09-21]
*1832: Henry Machin, of Gateford Hill [LondonGazette|issue=18900|startpage=254|endpage=255|date=6 February 1832|accessdate=2008-09-21]
*1833:Sir Thomas White, 2nd Baronet , of Wallingwells [LondonGazette|issue=19019|startpage=246|date=5 February 1833|accessdate=2008-09-21]
*1834: Slingsby Duncombe, of Langford [LondonGazette|issue=19125|startpage=206|date=4 February 1834|accessdate=2008-09-21]
*1835: Christopher Nevile, of Thorney [LondonGazette|issue=19238|startpage=235|endpage=236|date=9 February 1835|accessdate=2008-09-21]
*1836: John Handley, of Muskham Grange [LondonGazette|issue=19353|startpage=223|endpage=224|date=5 February 1836|accessdate=2008-09-21]
*1837: Robert Ramsden, of Carlton in Lindrick [LondonGazette|issue=19462|startpage=232|endpage=233|date=31 January 1837|accessdate=2008-09-21]
*1838: Thomas Webb Edge, of Strelley [LondonGazette|issue=19586|startpage=232|date=1 February 1838|accessdate=2008-09-21]
*1839: John Evelyn Denison, of Ossington [LondonGazette|issue=19704|startpage=214|date=9 February 1839|accessdate=2008-09-21]
*1850:Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper
*1859:Henry Porter Sherbrooke
*1866: Sir Edward Samuel Walker [ [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC64053290&id=NNdkxHnE8SgC& The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke, 1867] ]
*1882: Sir Henry Bromley, of East Stoke, Bart. [LondonGazette|issue=25078|startpage=870|date=28 February 1882 |accessdate=2008-02-11]
*1883: Percy Hartshorne Cooper, ofBulwell [LondonGazette|issue=25208|startpage=1231|date=3 March 1883 |accessdate=2008-02-11]
*1884: Frederick Chatfield Smith, of Bramcote [LondonGazette|issue=25325|startpage=1117|date=4 March 1884 |accessdate=2008-02-11]
*1885: [LondonGazette|issue=25449|startpage=970|date=6 March 1885 |accessdate=2008-02-11]
*1886:Henry Abel Smith , of Wilford [LondonGazette|issue=25566|startpage=1136|date=9 March 1886 |accessdate=2008-02-11]
*1887: Benjamin Huntsman, of West Retford [LondonGazette|issue=25680|startpage=1222|date=8 March 1887 |accessdate=2008-02-11]
*1888: Antony Gibbs, of Charlton House, Wraxall, Nailsea, [LondonGazette|issue=25798|startpage=1696|date=20 March 1888 |accessdate=2008-02-11]
*1889: [LondonGazette|issue=25922|startpage=2009|date=9 April 1889 |accessdate=2008-02-11]
*1890:Sir Charles Seely, 1st Baronet [LondonGazette|issue=26036|startpage=1781|date=25 March 1890 |accessdate=2008-02-11]
*1891:Lewis Randle Starkey of Norwood Park [LondonGazette|issue=26146|startpage=1653|date=24 March 1891 |accessdate=2008-02-11]
*1892:Sir Thomas Isaac Birkin, 1st Baronet [LondonGazette|issue=26269|startpage=1589|date=18 March 1892 |accessdate=2008-02-11]
*1899:William Welfit Hall of Park Hall, Mansfield [LondonGazette|issue=27061|startpage=1660|date=10 March 1899 |accessdate=2008-02-11]20th century
*1907–1908: Philip Barber
*1908:Francis Willey, 1st Baron Barnby
*1912:Sir Charles Seely, 2nd Baronet
*1915:Sir Thomas Birkin, 2nd Baronet
*1922:Frank Evelyn Seely
*1925:Hugh Seely, 1st Baron Sherwood
*1931:Philip Austen Birkin
*1933:Sir Harold Bowden, 2nd Baronet
*1938:Frank Burton
*1939:Frank James Wriothesley Seely
*1964–1965:Sir William Barber, 2nd Baronet
*1977-1978:Richard Abel Smith
*1978-1979:Christopher Gerald Pole-Carew
*1979-1980:Robin Brackenbury This century
*2003-2004:
William Henry Marcello Parente , ofWelbeck Abbey [LondonGazette|issue=56884|startpage=3603|endpage=3604|date=21 March 2003 |accessdate=2008-07-24]
*2004-2005:Henry Machin
*2005-2006:Tony Wilkinson
*2006-2007 Christopher Battiscombe-Scott [LondonGazette|issue=57921|notarchive=yes|startpage=3375|endpage=3376|date=9 March 2006 |accessdate=2007-11-30]
*2007–2008: Peter Russell Moore [LondonGazette|issue=58266|notarchive=yes|startpage=3313|endpage=3314|date=7 March 2007 |accessdate=2007-11-30]
*2008–2009 Colonel Roger Merryweather TD [LondonGazette|issue=58639|notarchive=yes|startpage=3947|endpage=3948|date=13 March 2008 |accessdate=2008-03-17]References
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