High Sheriff of Cheshire

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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 April.

[edit] List of High Sheriffs

High Sheriffs in Cheshire have included:

• 1284-1287: Robert le Grosvenor (d. 1293)
• 1307-1312: Robert le Grosvenor (d. 1328)
• 1389: Robert le Grosvenor (d. 1396)
• 1394: Robert le Grosvenor (d. 1396)
• 1602: Richard Grosvenor
• 1621: Sir Robert Cholmondeley, Bt.
• 1623: Sir Richard Grosvenor, Bt.
• 1644: Sir Richard Grosvenor, Bt.
• 1707: Edmund Swetenham
• 1722: Edmund Swetenham (d. 1768)
• 1791: Charles Shakerley
• 1833: William Fielden
• 1865: Wilbraham Tollemache
• 1866: Robert Barbour
• 1871: George Baillie-Hamilton-Arden, 11th Earl of Haddington
• 1893: Robert Vyner
• 1903: Thomas Royden
• 1919: Sir Kenneth Crossley, Bt.
• 1920: Sir Percy Bates, Bt.
• 1921-1922: Cuthbert Leicester-Warren
• 1923: Hon. William Lever
• 1926: Sir Herbert Vernon, Bt.
• 1934-1935: Sir Harold Bibby, Bt.
• 1941: Philip Grey Egerton
• 1953: Sir Randle Baker-Wilbraham, Bt.
• 1959: Hon. Gerald Grosvenor
• 1960: Ronald Henry Antrobus
• 1960-1961: Archibald Sholto Douglas
• 1973-1974: George Kenyon
• 1979: Sir John Barlow, Bt.
• 1991: Sir Richard Baker-Wilbraham, Bt.
• 1992: Hon. Peter Greenall
• 1993: Hon. Richard Cornwall-Legh
• 2005: Mrs C. M. Paton-Smith ^[1]
• 2006: Mr David Briggs^{[2] [3]}
• 2007–2008: Nicholas Walter Bromley-Davenport ^[4]

[edit] References

1. ^ Privy Council Website.
2. ^ Privy Council Website
3. ^ Cheshire County Council Website
4. ^ London Gazette online. Retrieved on 2007-03-08.