The High Sheriff of Hertfordshire was an ancient Sheriff title originating in the time of the Angles , not long after the foundation of the Kingdom of England , which was in existence for around a thousand years. On 1 April 1974, under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972 , the title of Sheriff of Hertfordshire was retitled High Sheriff of Hertfordshire.[ 1] The High Shrievalties are the oldest secular titles under the Crown in England and Wales, their purpose being to represent the monarch at a local level, historically in the shires .
The office was a powerful position in earlier times, as sheriffs were responsible for the maintenance of law and order and various other roles. It was only in 1908 under Edward VII of the United Kingdom that the Lord Lieutenant became more senior than the High Sheriff. Since then the position of High Sheriff has become more ceremonial , with many of its previous responsibilities transferred to High Court judges , magistrates , coroners , local authorities and the police.
Below is a list of Sheriffs and High Sheriffs of Hertfordshire.
List of Sheriffs of Hertfordshire [ edit ]
Prior to 1567 the Sheriff of Essex was also the sheriff of Hertfordshire.
1603 Sir Henry Boteler – Hatfield
1604 Sir George Peryent – Digswell
1605 Thomas Docwra – Putteridge Bury (son of Thomas, HS 1580)
1606 Sir Leonard Hide – Throcking
1607 Sir John Leventhorpe – Shingey Hall
1608 Nicholas Trott of Quickswood in Clothill
1609 Ralph Sadleir – Standon
1610 Sir Richard Anderson – Pendley
1611 Sir Robert Boteler – Watton
1612 John Wild –
1613 William Frankland of Rye House
1614 Sir Thomas Dacres, snr of Cheshunt (died 1615) then (Aug–Nov) Thomas Dacres jnr of Cheshunt
1615 Sir Goddard Pemberton of Hertingfordbury (died August 1616)
1616 Lewis Pemberton – St Albans
1616 Thomas Newce – Hadham
1617 Edward Briscoe – Aldenham
1618 Thomas Read – Hatfield
1619 Sir Nicholas Hyde, 1st Baronet – North Mimms
1620 Roger Pemberton – St Albans
1621 William Hale – King's Walden
1622 Edward Newport – Pelham
1623 Sir Clement Scudamore – North Mimms
1624 Richard Sidley – Digswell
1625: William Lytton of Knebworth[ 2]
1626: John Jennings
1627: Sir Thomas Hyde, 2nd Baronet (son of Nicholas, HS 1620)[ 3]
1628: Edward Gardiner
1629: William Hoe
1630: John Boteler K.B. of Watton Woodhall, Watton-at-Stone[ 4]
1631:
1632: Richard Hale – King's Walden[ 5]
1633: Henry Coghill
1634: William Plomer
1635: William Priestley
1636: William Leman
1636: Ralph Freeman[ 6]
1637: Thomas Coningesby
1638: Thomas Hewett of Pishiobury, Sawbridgeworth[ 7]
1639: John Gore
1640: Richard Cole
1641: Arthur Pulter of Broadfield
1642: John Garrett
1644: Robert Jesselyn
1644: Charles Noles
1646: Richard Harlakenden of Earls Colne, Essex[ 8]
1695 Sir Thomas Rolt – Sacomb
1696 John Gape of Harpsfield Hall, St Albans
1697 John Billers – Thorley
1698 Thomas Auncel – Ickleford
1699 Henry Gore – Gilston
1700 George Nodes – Shephall
1701 Thomas Blackmore
1702 Robert Hadsley – Munden
1703 Edmond Field – Stansted
1704 Philip Boteler – Watton
1705 Joseph Huntsman
1706 Barnard Halpenny
1707 Henry Houblon – London
1708 Richard Sheppard
1709 Sir Richard Houblon – London
1710 William Robinson Lytton of Knebworth House then William Berners of Moore Place, Much Hadham
1711 Henry Ewer
1712 William Smith
1713 Charles Felton
1714 Henry Long – Bayford
1715 John Duncomb
1716 William Bucknall
1717 Pulter Forester – Bradfield
1718 James Fleet – Tewin
1719 John Nichols
1720 Sir Charles Buck – Watford
1721 Edward Radcliffe – Hitchin
1722 Thomas Kentish – St Albans
1723 John Seer – Yardley
1724 Henry Sibley – Yardley[ 55]
Thomas Sibley
1725 Samuel Poynter – Kelshall
1726 Richard Warren – Tewin
1727 Benedict Ithel – Hitchin
1729 Edward Searle replaced by John Turvin of Gilston
1730 Francis Goulston – Wyddial
1731 Richard Chase
1732 Thomas Wooton
1733 William Freeman – Aspenden Hall
1734 Richard Tuach – Rickmersworth
1735 Thomas Rolt – Sacomb
1736 John Dean – Wormley
1737 Robert Plummer[ 56]
1738 William Gape – St Albans
1739 William Benn – West Mill
1740 William Shaw – Cheshunt
1741 Robert Hadsley – Jenningsbury
1742 Geo Carpenter – Redburn
1743 Thomas Ansell – Ickleford
1744 Richard Chase – Much Hadham
1745 Sir Conyers Jocelyn – Hyde Hall
1746 Charles Halsey – Great Gaddesden
1747 Edward Chester – Albury replaced by Henry Fotherley Whitfield – Rickmersworth
1748 William Janssen – Cheshunt
1749 Nicholson Calvert – Hunsdon House
1750 John Cheshyre – Thundridgebury
1751 Thomas Whittewronge – Harpenden
1752 Benedict Ithel – Preston
1753 Caleb Lomax – Childwickbury
1754 Fitzwilliam Barrington – Lilley
1755 Giles Thornton Heysham – Paul's Walden
1756 John Turvin – Gilston
1757 Jacob Houblon – West Mill
1758 John Robinson Lytton of Knebworth House
1759 Sir John Chapman of Cockenhatch
1760 Benjamin Trueman – Hatfield
1761 John Ashfordby – Cheshunt
1762 Henry Fotherley Whitfield – Rickmansworth
1763 John Cope Freeman – Abbots Langley
1764 David Williams – Sarratt[ 57]
1765 Bibye Lake – St Margaret's
1766 John Seare – Tring
1767: Samuel Whitbread , of Bedwell Park[ 58]
1768 Lionel Lyde, later Sir Lionel Lyde, 1st Baronet – Ayot St Lawrence
1769 Jeremiah Hadsley – Barkway
1770 Henry Green – Gaddesden Hoo
1771 George Prescott – Theobalds
1772 Samuel Moody – Watford
1773 John Dorrien – Berkhamsted St Peter's
1774 Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet – Wormley Bury
1775 Richard Emmott – Goldings
1776 Thomas Harwood – Preston
1777 John Searancke – Hatfield
1778 Thomas Blackmore – Hunsdon
1779 Richard Baker – Hertingfordbury
1780 John Hunter of Gubbins, Potter's Bar
1781 Thomas Clutterbuck – Watford
1782 John Mickie – North Mimms
1783 Robert Machy – Tewin
1784 John Thomas Ellis of Wyddial Hall
1785 William Phillimore – Aldenham[ 59]
1786 Jeremiah Milles – Pishiobury
1787 John Roper of Berkhamsted st Peter[ 60]
1788 Charles Bourchier of Shenley[ 61]
1789 Drummond Smith of Tring Park[ 62]
1790 Samuel Robert Gaussen of Brookman's Park, North Mimms
1791 Matthew Raper of Ashlyns Hall [ 63]
1792 James Bourchier of Shenley[ 64]
1793 Sir George William Prescott, 1st Baronet of Theobalds[ 65]
1794 Samuel Lightenhouse of Orford House
1795 James Harding of Tring
1796 John Sowerby of Lilley
1797 Sir John Sebright, 7th Baronet of Beechwood
1798 Felix Calvert – Hunsdon House
1799 Archibald Paxton – Watford Place
5 February 1800: Justinian Casamajor, of Potterells[ 66]
11 February 1801: Thomas Fitzherbert, of Shenley [ 67]
3 February 1802: Jacob Bosanquet , of Broxbourne Park[ 68]
3 February 1803: Henry Brown, of North Mimms Place[ 69]
1 February 1804: Edward Garrow, of Totteridge [ 70]
6 February 1805: Emilius Henry Delmé-Radcliffe, of Hitchin Priory[ 71]
1 February 1806: George Sullivan Marten, of Sandridge Lodge[ 72]
4 February 1807: George Caswall, of Sacombe Park[ 73]
3 February 1808: James Smyth, of Ashlyns Hall[ 74]
6 February 1809: Edmond Darby, of Aston Bury [ 75]
31 January 1810: Thomas Haworth, of Boreham Lodge[ 76]
8 February 1811: Robert Taylor, of Tolmers[ 77]
24 January 1812: John Currie, of Essendon [ 78]
10 February 1813: John Fam Timins, of Aldenham [ 79] [ 80]
4 February 1814: Nicholas Segar Parry, of Little Hadham [ 81]
13 February 1815: Andrew Reid , of Chipping Barnet [ 82]
1816 Daniel Giles of Youngsbury, Ware
1817 Edmund Morris of Chorleywood[ 83]
1818 George Palmer – Much Hadham
1819 Samuel Unwin Heathcote – Shephallbury
1820 John Earley Cook – Nunsbury
1821 Joseph Timperon – New Barnet
1822 Thomas Daniell – Little Berkhampstead
1823 Robert Sutton – Rossway , Northchurch
1824 Patrick Haydon – Colney Chapel
1825 Thomas Nash Kemble – Gubbins Park
1826 Sir George Duckett – Roydon
1827 Joseph Andrew Latour – Hexton Manor
1828 Sir Culling Smith – Bedwell Park
1829 Charles Phelips – Briggins Park
1830 William Hale – King's Walden
1831 Augustus Smith – Ashlyns Hall first appointed,[ 84] replaced by Hon Thomas Robert Dimsdale, Baron Dimsdale [ 85] – Camfield Place[ 86]
1832 Robert Plumer Ward – Gilston Park[ 87]
1833 George Jacob Bosanquet – Broxbourne Bury
1834 Wiliam Robert Phillimore – Newberries[ 88]
1835 William Robert Baker – Bayfordbury
1836 William Blake – Danesbury
1901 Major-General Apsley Cherry-Garrard , of Lamer Park – Wheathampstead[ 97]
1902 Evelyn Simpson – Baldock[ 98]
1903 Henry Tylston Hodgson – Harpenden
1904 Sir Edgar Reginald Sebright – Beechwood
1905 Thomas Fenwick Harrison – King's Walden Bury
1906 Hellier Gosselin-Grimshawe – Bengeo Hall
1907 Benjamin Samuel Faudel-Phillips – Hertford
1908 Arthur Salvin Bowlby – Gilston Park
1909 Edward Ernest Pearson – Brickendonbury
1910 Sir Alfred Reynolds – Ayot Bury
George V and Edward VIII [ edit ]
1935 Lt Colonel Wilfred Hubert Wild – St Albans
Edward VIII and George VI [ edit ]
1936 Col Sir Geoffrey Selby Church – Hatfield[ 99]
1937 Arthur Edwin Cutforth – Sawbridgeworth
1938 Henry Fowell Buxton – Ware
1939 Capt Sir Cecil Gustavus Newman – Royston
1940 Capt Reginald Henry Abel-Smith – Hatfield
1941 Major Albert Pam – Broxbourne
1942 The Rt Hon Sir Felix Cassel – Luton
1943 Col William Hilton Briggs – Watford
1944 Michael Bruce Urquhart Dewar – Hitchin
1945 Capt Sir Humphrey Edmund de Trafford – Royston
1946 Sir Patrick Ashley Cooper – Hexton Manor
1947 Capt Francis Pawle – Ware
1948 Brig Edward Henry Beddington – Much Hadham[ 100]
1949 Brig Walter Hugh Crosland – Little Berkhamsted
1950 The Hon David Bowes-Lyon – St Paul's Walden Bury
1951 Col Sir William Henry Dyke Acland – Welwyn
Coat of arms of High Sheriff of Hertfordshire
Notes
Granted 20 August 1963 [ 102]
Escutcheon
Azure a castle triple towered Or on a chief Argent a hart lodged Proper.
List of High Sheriffs of Hertfordshire [ edit ]
High Sheriff of Hertfordshire
Where no other source is indicated, the name has been taken from the Shrievalty's own list, List of High Sheriffs
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