• The high sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown and is appointed annually (in March) by the Crown. The High Sheriff of Norfolk was originally...
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  • a list of sheriffs of Norfolk County, Massachusetts. The sheriff is elected to serve a six-year term and oversees the Norfolk County House of Correction...
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    the house of York which was to last for the rest of his life." In 1461 Howard was High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, and during the years 1462-4, he took...
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  • This is a list of Sheriffs of Norfolk and Suffolk. The Sheriff (since 1974 called High Sheriff) is the oldest secular office under the Crown and is appointed...
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  • of Norfolk), defeated the Dane Sweyn Estrithson's invasion attempt near Ipswich. After Ralph de Gael's fall in 1074, Roger was appointed sheriff of Norfolk...
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    Sir John Shelton (category High sheriffs of Norfolk)
    John was appointed High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1504 and 1522, and was a Justice of the Peace for Norfolk. At the coronation of Henry VIII, Sir...
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  • Robert Malet (category High sheriffs of Norfolk)
    Normandy. From 1070 to 1080, Malet was High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, and helped suppress the rebellion of Ralph Wader. Afterwards, he appeared frequently...
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    Henry Wentworth (category High sheriffs of Norfolk)
    and 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...
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  • Sir Nicholas Bacon, 14th Baronet (category High sheriffs of Norfolk)
    Lieutenant of Norfolk. In 2005, he was appointed to the Prince's Council of the Duchy of Cornwall and served as High Sheriff of Norfolk. In 2006 he succeeded...
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    John Shelton (courtier) (category High sheriffs of Norfolk)
    Heveningham, was possibly the mistress of Henry VIII of England during 1535. Shelton may have been High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk as early as 1523, when...
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  • appointed High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk about 1069/70, and appointment that passed to his son Robert upon his death. The Domesday Book of 1086 also...
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    Henry Spelman (category High sheriffs of Norfolk)
    Norfolk in 1593 and 1597–98. Knighted in 1603, he was appointed High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1604. In 1612, he settled in London near his friend Sir Robert...
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    in 1529, and served as High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1532. Extracts from the Household Accounts kept at Hunstanton in the time of Sir Thomas and his successor...
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  • former High Sheriff of Norfolk, Bagge was unhappy with the lack of attention Truss had given to the constituency and had resigned as Deputy Lieutenant of Norfolk...
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    Bacon baronets (category Baronetcies in the Baronetage of England)
    twelfth/thirteenth Baronet. He was High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1895, a justice of the peace and Deputy Lieutenant for the county and Chairman of the Lindsey County Council...
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    Rotulorum of Norfolk – List of Keepers of the Rolls Duke of Norfolk Earl of Norfolk Healthcare in Norfolk High Sheriff of Norfolk List of parliamentary...
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    successively as chamberlain of John's household, Ambassador to Portugal, Sheriff first of Dorset and Somerset (1200–1204) and then of Berkshire (1202–4) and...
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  • William Boleyn (category High sheriffs of Norfolk)
    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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  • (2nd term) Before 1576 – See High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk 1576: Robert Ashfield, of Stowlangtoft 1577: John Heigham of Barrow and Bury St Edmunds...
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  • Aubrey de Vere II (category High sheriffs of Norfolk)
    and Stephen. Henry I also appointed him as sheriff of London and Essex and co-sheriff with Richard Basset of eleven counties. In 1130 he owed the king...
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  • Anthony Duckworth-Chad (category High sheriffs of Norfolk)
    was appointed High Sheriff of Norfolk. He now serves as a Deputy Lieutenant of Norfolk. In 1999, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British...
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  • (1924–1992), father of Diana, Princess of Wales John Spencer (courtier) (died 1417), a servant of Henry V, MP for Suffolk, and High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk...
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    Great Witchingham (category Villages in Norfolk)
    the 1980s.[citation needed] It was once the home of John Norris (1734–77), High Sheriff of Norfolk for 1766.[citation needed] The village is also home...
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    Miles Stapleton (category High sheriffs of Norfolk)
    Miles Stapleton was the son of Sir Brian Stapleton, of Ingham (1379–1438), Sheriff of Norfolk, a veteran of the Battle of Agincourt, and Cecily Bardolf...
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  • William Calthorpe (category High sheriffs of Norfolk)
    an English knight and Lord of the Manors of Burnham Thorpe and Ludham in Norfolk. He is on record as High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1442, 1458...
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  • Durrant baronets (category Baronetcies in the Baronetage of Great Britain)
    Britain. It was created on 22 January 1784 for Thomas Durrant, High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1784. Sir Thomas Durrant, 1st Baronet (c. 1722–1790) Sir Thomas...
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    Sir Robert Vyner, 1st Baronet (category High sheriffs of Norfolk)
    as High Sheriff of Norfolk.[citation needed] Having been appointed the king's goldsmith in 1661, Sir Robert was one of those who lent large sums of money...
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  • High Sheriff of Lincolnshire High Sheriff of Merseyside High Sheriff of Norfolk High Sheriff of Northamptonshire High Sheriff of North Yorkshire High Sheriff...
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    Richard Southwell (courtier) (category High sheriffs of Norfolk)
    Thomas Thursby (d. 1532) of Hillington, Norfolk and Edmund Beaupré. From 1534 to 1535, Southwell was High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk. It was in 1536...
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    David Jamieson (VC) (category High sheriffs of Norfolk)
    Windsor-Clive, in 1969. He was appointed High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1979. He died on 5 May 2001 in Burnham Market, Norfolk, and was interred in the churchyard...
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