• largely ceremonial. The high sheriff changes every March. This is a list of high sheriffs of Kent. 5 February 1800: John Larking, of East Malling 12 February...
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    James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele (category High sheriffs of Kent)
    and served as High Sheriff of Kent in 1436 and High Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex in 1438. He was Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports...
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    was a Justice of the Peace for Kent from 1587 to his death and was appointed High Sheriff of Kent for 1600–01. He was elected a Member of Parliament (MP)...
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  • John Smythe may refer to: John Smythe (High Sheriff of Kent), MP for Aylesbury and Hythe John Smythe (MP for Buckingham) (c.1599–1640), MP for Buckingham...
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    December was appointed Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and made High Sheriff of Kent. In October 1263 he was one of those who sealed the agreement between...
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    Oxon Hoath (category Country houses in Kent)
    park. Oxon Hoath has been the seat of two baronetcies, and of five High Sheriffs of Kent. It has a surviving example of parterre gardens in its grounds....
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    Baron Brabourne (category Baronies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom)
    House of Commons as representative for Armagh. His son, the eighth Baronet, was High Sheriff of Kent in 1785 and later represented Kent in the House of Commons...
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    (1215–17), Hubert de Burgh served John as sheriff of Kent (1216–25) and Surrey (1215–16), as well as castellan of Canterbury and Dover. He successfully defended...
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  • Joseph Sebag-Montefiore (category High sheriffs of Kent)
    number of public offices, including Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for Kent and for the Cinque Ports, Lieutenant of the City of London, and High Sheriff of Kent...
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    Thomas Wyatt (poet) (category High sheriffs of Kent)
    appointed High Sheriff of Kent for 1536. At this time, he was sent to Spain as ambassador to Charles V, who was offended by the declaration of Princess...
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  • Frank Cyril Tiarks (category High sheriffs of Kent)
    Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (1917–1948); and High Sheriff of Kent for 1927. He was created an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. He served in...
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    Edward Austen Knight (category High sheriffs of Kent)
    Austen's House Museum). He was also High Sheriff of Kent in 1801. Edward was born in Deane, Hampshire, the third of eight children born to Rev. George...
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  • Humberside High Sheriff of the Isle of Wight High Sheriff of Kent High Sheriff of Lancashire High Sheriff of Leicestershire High Sheriff of Lincolnshire High Sheriff...
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  • Reginald de Cornhill (category High sheriffs of Kent)
    father, Gervase, had also been High Sheriff of Kent in 1170-74[citation needed] and his brother Henry de Cornhill sheriff of London. He became the King's...
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    Comptroller of the Household and in 1489 was created a Companion of the Bath at the same ceremony as Prince Arthur. He served as High Sheriff of Kent in 1491...
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    Sir John Lubbock, 3rd Baronet (category High sheriffs of Kent)
    later created Baron Avebury in 1900. He was appointed Sheriff of Kent for 1852. Lubbock became head of Lubbock & Co, retired mostly in 1840, but oversaw the...
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  • Jane Margaret Rogers (category High sheriffs of Kent)
    of Riverhill, Sevenoaks was the High Sheriff of Kent from March 2009 to March 2010. Rogers' great grandfather, Henry Arthur Brassey, was High Sheriff...
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    William Roper (category High sheriffs of Kent)
    appointed High Sheriff of Kent for 1554–55. Although he remained a Roman Catholic, he was permitted to retain his office of prothonotary of the Court of King's...
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  • William Boleyn (category High sheriffs of Kent)
    of Blickling Hall in Norfolk and Hever Castle in Kent, was a wealthy and powerful landowner who served as Sheriff of Kent in 1489 and as Sheriff of Norfolk...
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    of Glassenbury, Cranbrook, in the County of Kent, was created in the Baronetage of England on 3 July 1620 for Thomas Roberts, High Sheriff of Kent in...
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    Lullingstone Castle (category Country houses in Kent)
    was started in 1497 by Sir John Peche, High Sheriff of Kent for 1494-95 and later (1509) joint Lord Deputy of Calais. Henry VIII and Queen Anne were regular...
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    Peter, 1st Earl of Essex. He was one of the nine godfathers of Prince Edward, the future King Edward I. He served as Sheriff of Kent for 1239–40. In 1258...
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  • Sir Charles Davis, 1st Baronet (category High sheriffs of Kent)
    1st Baronet (1878 – 27 October 1950) was Lord Mayor of London for 1945–46. He was managing director of Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd. Davis...
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    later caught on 12 July 1450 by Alexander Iden, a future High Sheriff of Kent. As a result of the skirmish with Iden, the mortally wounded Cade died before...
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    Schroders (category Investment management companies of the United Kingdom)
    Cyril Tiarks – director of the Bank of England (1912–1945); and High Sheriff of Kent (1927) "Annual Results 2023" (PDF). Schroders. Retrieved 29 February...
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    Thomas Smythe (category Sheriffs of the City of London)
    Earl of Leicester. Thomas Smythe's elder son, Sir John Smythe or Smith (1556?–1608) of Westenhanger, was High Sheriff of Kent in 1600, and father of Thomas...
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    Nicholas de Moels (category High sheriffs of Kent)
    governor of Caernarvon Castle and Cardigan Castle. He was made Constable of Dover Castle in 1246, Sheriff of Kent in 1247 and Lord Warden of the Cinque...
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    and was sold to William Glanville, MP (formerly William Evelyn), High Sheriff of Kent for 1757. The house passed down in the Evelyn family via William...
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  • John Cator (category High sheriffs of Kent)
    against him accusing him of bribery. He was then elected for Stockbridge from 1790 to 1793. He was appointed High Sheriff of Kent for 1780–81. Cator's first...
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    Henry de Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham (category High sheriffs of Kent)
    1300), of Cobham and of Cooling, Sheriff of Kent, Constable of Rochester Castle in Kent and one of the Barons of the Exchequer, by his wife Joan de...
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