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    of four titles; the High Sheriff of the East Riding of Yorkshire, High Sheriff of North Yorkshire, High Sheriff of South Yorkshire and High Sheriff of...
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  • The High Sheriff of West Yorkshire is a current High Sheriff title which has existed since 1974, the holder is changed annually every March. For around...
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    was a Sheriff of Yorkshire until 1974. Yorkshire gives its name to four modern ceremonial counties: East Riding of Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, South...
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  • The High Sheriff of South Yorkshire is a current High Sheriff title which has existed since 1974. The holder is changed annually every March. For around...
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  • High Sheriff of North Yorkshire is a current High Sheriff title which has existed since 1974. For around 1,000 years the entire area of Yorkshire was covered...
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    Armytage baronets (category Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of England)
    Baronetcy, of Kirklees in the County of York, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 4 July 1738 for Samuel Armytage, high sheriff of Yorkshire in...
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    which was one judicial county, having a single Sheriff of Yorkshire, but from 1660 onwards each of Yorkshire's three ridings had its own lieutenant. In 1889...
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    Malet was a court case of early English law between Ealdred (the archbishop of York) and William Malet (the High Sheriff of Yorkshire) that occurred circa...
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    England Colonies, he was appointed as commissioner of Jamaica, and the judge and high sheriff of Yorkshire, New York. The Coe family, originally recorded...
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  • High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1068. Of the so-called companions of William of Normandy, Malet is one of about a dozen for whom there is evidence of their...
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  • High Sheriff of the East Riding of Yorkshire is a current High Sheriff title which has existed since 1996. For around 1,000 years the entire area of Yorkshire...
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    Sheriff Hutton is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It lies about 10 miles (16 km) north by north-east of York. The village is mentioned...
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    South Yorkshire is a ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire to the north,...
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  • that was removed from the jurisdiction of the Sheriff of Yorkshire to come under the authority of the Sheriff of Kingston upon Hull instead. The term Hullshire...
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  • Ralph Paynel (category William II of England)
    partisan of William II of England, and sheriff of Yorkshire. Paynel was probably a member of the Norman family which held land in the Duchy of Normandy...
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  • Dorset High Sheriff of Durham High Sheriff of the East Riding of Yorkshire High Sheriff of East Sussex High Sheriff of Essex High Sheriff of Gloucestershire...
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  • Sheriff of the East Riding of Yorkshire and High Sheriff of Lincolnshire titles. Below is a list of the sheriffs. 1974–1975 John Godfrey Fisher, of Gunnerby...
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  • the High Sheriff of North Yorkshire and High Sheriff of County Durham titles. Below is a list of the sheriffs. 1974–1975 Dr Frank Ogle Graham, of 60 Meadowfield...
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  • Ranulf de Glanvill (category High Sheriffs of Yorkshire)
    first heard of as Sheriff of Yorkshire, Warwickshire and Leicestershire from 1163 to 1170 when, along with the majority of High Sheriffs, he was removed...
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    William Harrington (knight) (category High Sheriffs of Yorkshire)
    Neville of Hornby, Lancashire. She was the daughter of Sir Robert Neville of the House of Neville who was Sheriff of Yorkshire and Constable of Pontefract...
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    Henry Wentworth (category High Sheriffs of Yorkshire)
    held the offices of Knight of the Shire for Yorkshire, and High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1482. He was High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1489 and 1492...
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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 1837...
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  • Knight of the Shire and High Sheriff of Yorkshire. He was born into a well-known north Yorkshire family with a seat at Mortham on the banks of the Tees...
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    Peter FitzHerbert (category High Sheriffs of Yorkshire)
    FitzHerbert, (died 1235) Lord of Blenlevenny, was a 13th-century nobleman and Sheriff of Yorkshire. FitzHerbert was one of the Counsellors named in Magna...
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  • Matthew Boynton (category High Sheriffs of Yorkshire)
    Boynton of Barmston, who was High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1596, and his wife Dorothy Place, daughter of Sir Christopher Place, of Halnaby, Yorkshire. He was...
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    West Yorkshire is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire to the north and...
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    Melton who married the niece of Hastings's wife, who then conveyed it to Sir Arthur Ingram of York, High Sheriff of Yorkshire. A former mining village, it...
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  • he was usually selected by the Sheriff of Yorkshire for executions at HMP Armley from 1947 onwards. The execution of Walter Sharpe (aged 20) took place...
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  • 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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    of King Henry VIII and was knighted at Henry's coronation in 1509. He was later appointed Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1522 and became hereditary Sheriff of...
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