• office of High Sheriff of Hereford and Worcester came into existence with the county of Hereford and Worcester on 1 April 1974 under the provisions of the...
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  • by that of High Sheriff of Hereford and Worcester. However, in 1998 the new county was dissolved, restoring Herefordshire and Worcestershire and creating...
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  • county of Hereford and Worcester, and as a result the office of Sheriff of Herefordshire was replaced by that of High Sheriff of Hereford and Worcester. However...
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  • Michael Brinton (category Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order)
    from 2001 to 2012. Previously, he was High Sheriff of Hereford and Worcester in 1990. He was a former chairman of the British carpet company Brintons....
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    in Worcester were expelled to Hereford. Worcester elected its Member of Parliament at the Guildhall, by the loudest shout rather than the raising of hands...
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    gaining the parishes of Warndon and St Peter the Great County and it became a non-metropolitan district, with Hereford and Worcester County Council providing...
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    Local Government of Hereford and Worcester. December 1994 – Retrieved 16 May 2013 Bathurst, David (2012). Walking the county high points of England. Chichester:...
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  • Michael Singleton (category Recipients of the Military Cross)
    also a local magistrate, High Sheriff of Hereford and Worcester, and a Deputy Lieutenant. He married Diana Philpot in 1939, and they had five children....
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    many other churches in the Worcester, Hereford and Gloucester areas. He famously wept upon the destruction of the old Worcester Cathedral to make way for...
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    form Hereford and Worcester. Within this, Herefordshire was covered by the local government districts of South Herefordshire, Hereford, and part of Malvern...
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    Gloucester and attacked and burnt Worcester. He also captured the castles of Winchcombe, Cerne, and Hereford. Meanwhile, he was deprived by Stephen of his office...
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  • This is a list of the present unpaid ceremonial offices of High Sheriffs in England and Wales and in Northern Ireland, along with the more localised but...
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    Worcestershire then in 1625 MP for Worcester. He also served as High Sheriff of Worcestershire in 1625. When Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex died in 1646, Sir...
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    merger of two former counties and combined both their names: Hereford and Worcester. The pre-1974 counties of Cumberland, Rutland, Westmorland, and Huntingdon...
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    most of Worcestershire was combined with Herefordshire to form a new county named Hereford and Worcester, while the northern Black Country towns and villages...
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    mirth of the Norman court. With this his barony of Kington was taken by the Crown and became an appurtenance of the office of Sheriff of Hereford, finally...
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    Archives, 1997 c. 23, retrieved 20 March 2024 "The Hereford and Worcester (Structural, Boundary and Electoral Changes) Order 1996", legislation.gov.uk...
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    parish in north-east of Herefordshire, England, and is approximately 14 miles (23 km) north-east from the city and county town of Hereford. The closest town...
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  • William Devereux (1219–1265) (category People of the Barons' Wars)
    of Abergavenny; Walter de Cantilupe, Bishop of Worcester; and Thomas de Cantilupe, Bishop of Hereford. His interests on the Welsh Marches were further...
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    Brown, Green, and Longmans. Williams, William Retlaw (1897). The parliamentary history of the county of Worcester. Hereford: Jakeman and Carver. OL 23661254M...
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  • Piers Bengough (category Deputy lieutenants of Hereford and Worcester)
    a Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Hereford and Worcester on 29 June 1987. Bengough was named High Sheriff of Herefordshire for 2002. He joined the...
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    Cantilupe, Bishop of Hereford, and Godfrey de Giffard, Bishop of Worcester, to the regency council formed to govern England when Edward and Eleanor, the Queen...
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    until Hereford and Worcester were reduced. He, therefore, set to work to carry out this out. From his spies Waller learnt it was possible, if a bold and sudden...
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    Worcester's early importance is partly due to its position on trade routes, but also because it was a centre of Church learning and wealth, due to the...
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  • Peter de Montfort (category High sheriffs of Staffordshire)
    was a member of the royal council, had received an appointment in the Welsh Marches, and was serving as High Sheriff of Staffordshire and Shropshire.[citation...
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    Winnington baronets (category Baronetcies in the Baronetage of Great Britain)
    Worcestershire and Bewdley. The fourth Baronet sat as Liberal Member of Parliament for Bewdley. The fifth Baronet was High Sheriff of Worcestershire in 1894, and the...
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  • on the railway line, and on the earlier canal from Hereford city. Herefordshire was governed by a sheriff as early as the reign of Edward the Confessor...
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    only shade of red not seen is the deep color typical of the Hereford. In the 21st century it is considered part of the cultural heritage of Texas.: 343 ...
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    Symonds Yat (category Forest of Dean)
    that the addition of Symonds was made in the 17th century in reference to Robert Symonds of Sugwas and Evesfield, High Sheriff of Herefordshire in 1685...
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    William de Cantilupe (died 1251) (category High sheriffs of Derbyshire)
    de Cantilupe (1195-1266), Bishop of Worcester. He became a retainer of Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester and served with him on King Henry III's...
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