High Sheriff of Berkshire

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The High Sheriff of Berkshire, in common with other counties, was originally the King's representative on taxation upholding the law in Saxon times. The word Sheriff evolved from 'shire-reeve'.

The title of High Sheriff is therefore much older than the other crown appointment, the Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire, which came about after 1545. Between 1248 and 1566 Berkshire and Oxfordshire formed a joint shrievalty (apart from a brief period in 1258/9).

Unlike the Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire, which is generally held from appointment until the holder's death or incapacity, the title of High Sheriff is appointed / reappointed annually. The High Sheriff is assisted by an Under-Sheriff of Berkshire.

[edit] List of High Sheriffs of Berkshire

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Before 1066 Godric, first recorded Sheriff of Berkshire
1097 Hugh de Buckland
1264 John de St Valery
1270 Nicholas de Hendred
1313 Philip De La Beche
1398 Sir Richard Abberbury the Younger
1400 Thomas Chaucer
1435 Thomas Fettiplace
1475 Sir Thomas De La Mare
1480 Sir Thomas De La Mare
1481 Sir William Norreys
1486 Sir William Norreys
1489 Sir Thomas De La Mare
1502 John Williams
1509 Sir William Essex
1518 Sir William Essex
1519 Thomas Englefield, Justice of the Common Pleas - son of Sir Thomas Englefield and father of Sir Francis Englefield
1524 Sir William Essex
1538 John Williams
1540 Sir William Essex
1544 John Williams
1547 Sir Francis Englefield
1553 John Williams
1555 Sir Richard Brydges
1562 Henry Norris
1571 John Winchcombe III (1519-1573)
1641 Tanfield Vachell
1675 John Breedon I
1690 Bartholomew Tipping IV
1700 John Breedon III
1713 Benjamin Child
1729 William Noake
1738 William Trumbull
1740 Benjamin Griffin
1755 Sir Mark Stuart Pleydell
1786 William Poyntz of Midgham
1795 William Thoyts
1797 Bartholomew Tipping VII
1809 Sir Thomas Theophilus Metcalfe
1816 Richard Benyon De Beauvoir
1818 Robert Palmer
1829 John Walter
1838 Winchcombe Henry Howard Hartley
1839 Mortimer George Thoyts
1846 William Stephens
1857 Richard Fellowes Benyon
1866 John Blandy-Jenkins
1905 Alfred Palmer
1907 Sir Edward Arthur Barry, 2nd Baronet
1910 Alexander Felix Clarke of Midgham
1912 Alexander Henderson, 1st Lord Faringdon (1850-1934)
1917 Basil Guy Oswald Smith
1934 Sir Robert Andrew Stransham Black, 2nd Baronet of Midgham Park
1957 Edward Langton Iliffe, 2nd Baron Iliffe (1908-1996)
1958 John Lycett Wills
1963 Hugh Waldorf Astor
1965 Gordon William Nottage Palmer
1995 Sir William Benyon
1999 Michael John Benjamin Todhunter
2000 James Henry Lavallin Puxley
2002 Timothy Dawson
2003 Malcolm Kimmins
2004 Anthony West
2005 Mary Bayliss
2007–2008 Harry Merton Henderson ^[1]