• This is a list of Sheriffs of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. One sheriff was appointed for both counties from 1125 until the end of 1575 (except for...
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    Pigott of Doddershall was High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1552–3, and in 1557-8, and a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Bedfordshire in 1559...
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  • Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, and Bedfordshire. Geoffrey, too, got his start in this way, as High Sheriff of Northamptonshire for the last five years of Henry...
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  • The High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire, in common with other counties, was originally the King's representative on taxation upholding the law in Saxon times...
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  • Sir John de Grey (category High sheriffs of Bedfordshire)
    and high sheriff. John was the second son of Henry de Grey of Grays Thurrock in Essex. He served as High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire in...
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  • William Gascoigne (died 1540) (category High sheriffs of Bedfordshire)
    Cardington. He was pricked High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire for 1506–07, 1513–14 and 1517–18 and High Sheriff of Northamptonshire for 1518–19. He...
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    High Sheriff of Warwickshire and Leicester and High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire in 1199. D'Aubigny stayed neutral at the beginning of the...
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    in 1525 and was knighted the following year.[citation needed] He was High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire for 1529–30, 1534–35, and 1549–50...
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  • Northampton Castle, but in 1214 he was replaced as High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, and by 1215 he had defected to the baronial faction. By...
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    elected as knight of the shire (MP) for Bedfordshire in 1547. He served as High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire in 1551, and from 1560 to 1569...
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  • Although not a successful justice, he was appointed High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire on 18 January 1224 to replace Falkes de Breauté, who...
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    City of Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire. Policing and fire and rescue services continue to be provided on a county-wide basis, with Bedfordshire Police...
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    Sir John Donne (category High sheriffs of Bedfordshire)
    1483, and was appointed High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire for 1485 under King Richard III. After the change of dynasty in 1485, he must have...
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  • sometime between 1070 and 1089, where he is named as "sheriff", but it is unclear whether he was sheriff of Buckinghamshire or of Bedfordshire. Judith A. Green...
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  • Edmund Ashfield (MP) (category High sheriffs of Bedfordshire)
    Berkshire and Oxfordshire for 1559–60 and High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire for 1569–70. He was elected a Member of the Parliament of England...
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  • building of Braybrooke Castle, a fortified manor house. He served as a justiciar in 100 and 1207. He was appointed High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire...
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    High Sheriff of Lincolnshire, from 1228 to 1234 as High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire and from 1229 to 1234 as High Sheriff of Warwickshire...
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  • early years of Henry II's. He served Henry as Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire from 1156 to 1159, and as a justiciar, as well as being his constable...
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  • John Mordaunt, 1st Baron Mordaunt (category High sheriffs of Bedfordshire)
    and was appointed High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire for 1509. He was a member of Henry VIII's court and was with him at the Field of the...
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  • William de Beauchamp (died 1260) (category High sheriffs of Bedfordshire)
    1233, and was appointed a Baron of the Exchequer in 1234 and 1237.[citation needed] He also served as Sheriff of Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire for 1236...
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  • Lewis Mordaunt, 3rd Baron Mordaunt (category High sheriffs of Bedfordshire)
    of his father.[citation needed] He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bedfordshire (1563–67) and High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire in...
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    Lieutenant and a High Sheriff. Since November 2020, the Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire is The Countess Howe and the High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire is Dame...
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    House of Commons. He represented Buckinghamshire in parliament in 1545–47 and 1547–52. In 1547 he was appointed High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire...
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    Thomas de Strickland (category High sheriffs of Bedfordshire)
    Cumberland. He was appointed Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire for 1410 and for 1414. He was elected one of the knights of the shire (to represent...
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  • William Dormer (category High sheriffs of Bedfordshire)
    falconer in recognition of his support for her against Northumberland. He may have been made Sheriff for Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire due to his daughter...
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    Henry Cheyne, 1st Baron Cheyne (category High sheriffs of Bedfordshire)
    made Baron Cheyne in May 1572. He was appointed High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire for 1565. He held the title Baron Cheyne from 1572 until...
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    Until 1574 one sheriff covered Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, the shire court of the former being held at Bedford. The jurisdiction of the hundred courts...
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  • Robert Drury (died 1577) (category Politicians from Buckinghamshire)
    escheator for Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, and in 1546–47, 1555–56 and 1561–62, was High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. In 1538 a manor...
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  • John Gostwick (category High sheriffs of Bedfordshire)
    and in 1540 was appointed High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. He was re-elected to represent Bedfordshire again in December 1544, but died...
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    Edmund Braye, 1st Baron Braye (category High sheriffs of Bedfordshire)
    Sandys and his wife Margery, "in adjustment of a dispute between the parties regarding the lands of the deceased". He served as Sheriff of Bedfordshire for...
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