The High Sheriff of Leitrim was the British Crown's judicial representative in County Leitrim, Ireland from c.1582 until 1922, when the office was abolished...
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and Teller of the Irish Exchequer, Clements served as High Sheriff of Leitrim in 1759, having been the previous year appointed as Controller of the Great...
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Rotulorum of Leitrim in 1795 and Custos Rotulorum of Donegal in 1804. Having served as High Sheriff of Leitrim in 1796, Clements became Colonel of the Prince...
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George Lane-Fox (1816–1896), English landowner, High Sheriff of Leitrim and High Sheriff of Yorkshire, son of George Lane-Fox (1793–1848) Augustus Henry Lane-Fox...
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uncle Thomas and thence to Thomas' son, Thomas jnr. Thomas jnr was High Sheriff of Leitrim for 1763 and MP for County Monaghan from 1776 to 1783. The property...
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Lieutenant, for the West Riding of County York. He also served as High Sheriff of Leitrim in 1846 and High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1873. On 17 November...
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William Ormsby-Gore, 2nd Baron Harlech (category High sheriffs of Leitrim)
office in the county: he became High Sheriff there for 1857, and was appointed as Lord Lieutenant of County Leitrim in 1878, which he remained until...
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appointed Equerry to Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex. In 1838, he was appointed High Sheriff of Leitrim. He served as Groom-in-Waiting between the latter...
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John Robert Godley (category High sheriffs of Leitrim)
appointed High Sheriff of Leitrim and, in the following year, Deputy Lieutenant and a Justice of the Peace. He married Charlotte Griffith Wynne, daughter of Charles...
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George Lane-Fox (1816–1896), English landowner, High Sheriff of Leitrim and High Sheriff of Yorkshire, son of the above George Lane-Fox, 1st Baron Bingley...
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Henry Theophilus Clements (category High sheriffs of Leitrim)
rental income of around £3,000 per year. In 1773 he was appointed High Sheriff of Leitrim and in 1776 he was elected to represent County Leitrim. In parliament...
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William Ormsby-Gore (1779–1860) (category High sheriffs of Shropshire)
British Member of Parliament. Born into an Anglo-Irish family as William Gore, the eldest son of William Gore, M.P., of Woodford, County Leitrim, he was the...
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sat in the Irish House of Commons as member for Lanesborough, and served as High Sheriff of Roscommon and High Sheriff of Leitrim. He was succeeded in the...
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George Ormsby-Gore, 3rd Baron Harlech (category High sheriffs of Leitrim)
entered the House of Lords. Lord Harlech was a justice of the peace for both County Leitrim and Shropshire and High Sheriff of Leitrim for 1885. He was...
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Hugh Lyons-Montgomery (category High sheriffs of Leitrim)
1840, Lyons-Montgomery became High Sheriff of County Leitrim before being elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Leitrim at the 1852 general election...
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Arthur Archer (rugby union) (category High sheriffs of Leitrim)
based in the northwest of England, but lived his later years in Ireland, and was the High Sheriff of Leitrim in 1910. List of Ireland national rugby union...
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West Breifne (redirect from King of West Breifne)
now County Leitrim. It took its present boundaries in 1583 when West Breifne was shired and renamed Leitrim, after the village of Leitrim, which was an...
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John Massy, 6th Baron Massy (category High sheriffs of Leitrim)
representative peer in the House of Lords from 1876 to 1915. He was appointed Sheriff of Leitrim for 1863 and Sheriff of County Limerick in 1873. He succeeded...
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Wales, a sheriff (or high sheriff) is a ceremonial county or city official. In Scotland, sheriffs are judges. In the Republic of Ireland, in some counties...
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Arthur Loftus Tottenham (category High sheriffs of Leitrim)
P. for the counties of Leitrim, Cavan, and Fermanagh, and a Deputy Lieutenant for Co. Leitrim. He became High Sheriff of Leitrim in 1866. In 1876 Tottenham...
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Henry John Clements (category High sheriffs of Leitrim)
eldest son of the Rt Hon Henry Theophilus Clements and Catharine Beresford, daughter of John Beresford. He was appointed High Sheriff of Leitrim for 1804–05...
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John Stein (MP) (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies)
Mary Stein (1813–1873), who married George Lane-Fox of Bowcliffe Hall, High Sheriff of Leitrim, a son of George Lane-Fox, MP for Beverley. Stein died in 1814...
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Sir Arthur Gore, 1st Baronet (category High sheriffs of County Galway)
of Mayo. He served as Sheriff for Mayo again in 1670 and was nominated High Sheriff of Leitrim in 1677. Gore married Eleanor St George, daughter of Sir...
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Owen Wynne (1755–1841) (category High sheriffs of Leitrim)
High Sheriff of Sligo for 1819–20 and High Sheriff of Leitrim for 1833–34. He died in 1841. He had married Lady Sarah Elizabeth Cole, the daughter of...
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George Marsham (category Alumni of Merton College, Oxford)
in County Leitrim, Ireland. He was High Sheriff of Leitrim in 1878 and a Deputy Lieutenant of both Leitrim and Kent as well as a Justice of the Peace...
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Samuel White (Irish politician) (category High sheriffs of Leitrim)
of George Rothe. He may also have served briefly in the army. Between 1809 and 1810, he served as High Sheriff of Leitrim and then, upon the death of...
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Thomas Paget (British Army officer) (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies)
daughter of Colonel Hugh O'Rorke, sometime High Sheriff of Leitrim. Henry Paget was a younger son of William Paget, 5th Baron Paget and brother of William...
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James Fox-Lane (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies)
was a grandfather of George Lane-Fox, the High Sheriff of Leitrim and of Yorkshire who married Katherine Mary Stein (a daughter of John Stein). Through...
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George Lane-Fox (MP) (category Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge)
Lane-Fox (1816–1896), High Sheriff of Leitrim and of Yorkshire who married Katherine Mary Stein, a daughter of John Stein, in 1814. Frederica Elizabeth...
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Edward James Lawder (category British military personnel of the Indian Rebellion of 1857)
Lawder, High Sheriff of Leitrim 1909 Edward John Lawder, who married in Chuddeghat, Hyderabad on 28 November 1885 Madge Ellis, fifth daughter of George...
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