• of sheriffs and high sheriffs of the English county of Rutland. The sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown: there has been a Sheriff of...
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    Leicestershire. The office of High Sheriff of Rutland was instituted in 1129, and there has been a Lord Lieutenant of Rutland since at least 1559. Oakham...
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    Richard Cecil (courtier) (category High sheriffs of Rutland)
    Field of the Cloth of Gold; he rose to be Groom of the Robes and constable of Warwick Castle. He was High Sheriff of Rutland in 1539, and was one of those...
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    Sherard was High Sheriff of Rutland in circa 1495 and circa 1506, while in the next generation George Sherard was High Sheriff of Rutland in circa 1567...
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  • shrievalty. Thus there is a separate High Sheriff of Rutland (an office that existed prior to 1974 as the Sheriff of Rutland). c.1066: Hugh de Grandmesnil 1098:...
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    Sir James Harington, 1st Baronet (category High sheriffs of Rutland)
    High Sheriff of Rutland for 1593–94 and 1601–02 and Member of Parliament for Rutland in 1597 and 1604. He was knighted at Grimston Hall, the house of...
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    estates could be found. In 1349 he became a Knight of the Garter. He served as High Sheriff of Rutland from 1349 until his death in 1360. In 1339 he accompanied...
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    Member of Parliament for Rutland in 1838, a seat he held until 1840. He served a year as High Sheriff of Rutland for 1850. Noel married Anne, daughter of Joseph...
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  • John Harington (died 1553) (category High sheriffs of Rutland)
    as Bailiff of Leicester and Esquire of the Body. He served as High Sheriff of Rutland from 1520 to 1521, 1533 to 1534, 1540 to 1541 and from 1552 until...
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    of Tickencote, Rutland. (c. 1595 – 25 December 1631), widower of Jane Turpin, daughter of Sir William Turpin, and High Sheriff of Rutland, and had eight...
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  • Margaret de Clare (category High sheriffs of Rutland)
    her to another favourite, Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester. She was High Sheriff of Rutland from 1313 to 1319. On 28 April 1317, Margaret de Clare...
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  • Edward Monckton (North Northamptonshire MP) (category High sheriffs of Rutland)
    division. He also served from 1883 to 1884 as High Sheriff of Rutland. He was editor of Baylis' Law of Domestic Servants. Monckton was elected for the...
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  • Sheriff of Rutland. He was the eldest son of Richard Flower of Whitwell, Rutland and trained for the law at Lincoln's Inn. He was elected a Knight of...
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    Lieutenant of Rutland and Warwickshire during the 1590s. He was also High Sheriff of Rutland for 1594, 1598 and 1602. Harington was keeper of Kenilworth...
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    Jack Baldwin (RAF officer) (category High sheriffs of Rutland)
    Hussars and was killed in action in 1942 in Libya. Baldwin was the High Sheriff of Rutland for 1955–56. Falconer, Jonathon (1998). The Bomber Command Handbook...
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  • Northamptonshire High Sheriff of North Yorkshire High Sheriff of Northumberland High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire High Sheriff of Oxfordshire High Sheriff of Rutland High...
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    and 1219 and kept hold of his High Sheriffdoms, including that of Rutland. Between 1218 and 1219 he also served as a Justice of the Peace for Essex, Hertfordshire...
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    Tolethorpe Hall (category Country houses in Rutland)
    1369–1438) was MP for Rutland three times and High Sheriff of Rutland three times. Francis Browne was MP for Stamford and High Sheriff for 1524. His grandson...
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  • of Parliament for Rutland in 1840, but only held the seat until the following year. He then served a year as High Sheriff of Rutland for 1848. In 1866...
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    Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford. Following his marriage, he was created Earl of Gloucester by King Edward III. He served as Sheriff of Rutland from 1316 to 1322...
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  • William Melville Codrington (category High sheriffs of Rutland)
    and some of the Argentine companies nationalised by Juan Perón. He served as High Sheriff of Rutland in 1947 and as Lord Lieutenant of Rutland from 1951...
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    made it to the Holy Land. He was the regent of the Kingdom of England from 1286 to 1289 and the High Sheriff of Cornwall from 1289 to 1300. Edmund was born...
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    William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 7th Earl Fitzwilliam (category High sheriffs of Rutland)
    auxiliary forces during the celebrations. He was High Sheriff of Rutland for 1898–99. and Lord Mayor of Sheffield for 1909-10 On 24 June 1896, at St Paul's...
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  • Hugh Boyville (category High sheriffs of Rutland)
    proposed. Offices that Hugh held included Sheriff of Rutland in 1437 and 1449 and Justice of the Peace for Rutland from 1437 to 1459. Hugh's alleged activities...
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  • Sir Abel Barker, 1st Baronet (category High sheriffs of Rutland)
    Parliament and he served on the Rutland county committee. In 1646 he was appointed High Sheriff of Rutland and he served as a justice of the peace for the county...
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    East Midlands of England, and served as High Sheriff of Berkshire. Among his descendants were the infamous Despensers who became favourites of King Edward...
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    Richard Verney, 11th Baron Willoughby de Broke (category High sheriffs of Rutland)
    descendant of his elder brother Greville, and moved from his Rutland estate to live at Compton Verney. Richard Verney was High Sheriff of Rutland in 1682...
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  • English soldier, politician and High Sheriff of Rutland Hodgkin "Hotchkin Name Meaning, Family History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms". HouseOfNames. Retrieved...
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  • 1446 and High Sheriff of Rutland 1459 Everard Digby (scholar) (c.1550–?), English academic theologian Everard Digby (died 1509), MP for Rutland Everard...
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  • James Harington (lawyer) (category High sheriffs of Rutland)
    He served as Justice of the Peace in Kesteven, Lincolnshire in 1547, and in Rutland he became sheriff in 1553 and Justice of the Peace circa 1559. He...
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