• High Sheriff of Down is the Sovereign's judicial representative in County Down. Initially an office for lifetime, assigned by the Sovereign, the High...
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  • The post of Sheriff of Nottingham only came into existence in 1449. However, there has from very early Norman times been a High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire...
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  • This is a list of High Sheriffs of Hampshire. This title was often given as High Sheriff of the County of Southampton until 1959. 1070–1096: Hugh de Port...
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  • The high sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown (prior to 1974 the office previously known as sheriff). Formerly the high sheriff was the...
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  • The list of known High Sheriffs of Surrey extends back to 1066. At various times the High Sheriff of Surrey was also High Sheriff of Sussex (1229–1231...
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    William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie (category High sheriffs of Down)
    same year as High Sheriff of Antrim and subsequently of County Down. In February 1900 he was elected President of the Chamber of Shipping of the United...
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  • Andrew Mulholland (category High sheriffs of Down)
    cost of £3,000. He established a home in Springvale, Ballywalter, co. Down and served as High Sheriff of Down for 1855-56 and as High Sheriff of Antrim...
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  • Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Viscount Dungannon (category High sheriffs of Down)
    of Lords when created Viscount Dungannon and Baron Hill of Olderfleet in the Peerage of Ireland on 17 February 1766. He was appointed High Sheriff of...
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    Lieutenant of Down High Sheriff of Down Ards (territory) Blackstaff River Copeland Islands Dufferin (barony) Clandeboye Glens of Antrim Rathlin Island Cary...
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    Edward Bayly (category High sheriffs of Down)
    death of his cousin Nicholas Bagenall. He was High Sheriff of Anglesey in 1717 and High Sheriff of Down in 1730. In 1730 he was created a Baronet, of Plas...
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  • The office of High Sheriff is over 1000 years old, with its establishment before the Norman Conquest. The Office of High Sheriff remained first in precedence...
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    This is a list of high sheriffs of Bedfordshire. pre-1042: Aelfstan 1042–1066; Godric, Ralph Talgebose Bondi the Staller 1066-c.1084: Ansculf de Picquigny...
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  • William Annesley, 3rd Earl Annesley (category High sheriffs of Down)
    (1838–1875) He was High Sheriff of Down for 1822. "Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College...
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    J. M. Andrews (category High sheriffs of Down)
    Minister of Northern Ireland from 1940 to 1943. Andrews was born in Comber, County Down, Ireland in 1871, the eldest child in the family of four sons...
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  • The High Sheriff of Cavan was the British Crown's judicial representative in County Cavan, Ireland from the 16th century until 1922, when the office was...
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  • list of Sheriffs and High Sheriffs of Gloucestershire, who should not be confused with the Sheriffs of the City of Gloucester. The High Sheriff is the...
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  • The High Sheriff of Dorset is an ancient high sheriff title which has been in existence for over one thousand years. Until 1567 the Sheriff of Somerset...
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    Milne Barbour (category High sheriffs of Down)
    acted as High Sheriff of Armagh in 1905 and as High Sheriff of Down in 1907. He was created a baronet, of Hilden, in the County of Antrim, on 17 August...
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  • William Brownlow (British Army officer) (category High sheriffs of Down)
    the office of Justice of the Peace for County Down in 1956 and was High Sheriff of Down in 1959. Brownlow was Deputy Lieutenant of County Down in 1961 and...
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    business". He graduated in 1864. In 1874 he served as High Sheriff of Down and was then elected to the House of Commons for Newry in 1871, a seat he held until...
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    Division of the Order of the British Empire in the 1936 Birthday Honours. He also served as High Sheriff of County Down in 1913, as Lord Lieutenant of County...
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  • Sir Richard Johnston, 1st Baronet (category High sheriffs of Down)
    House of Commons. Johnston was High Sheriff of Down in 1765, High Sheriff of Armagh in 1771 and was made a baronet, of Gilford in the Baronetage of Ireland...
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  • James Blackwood, 2nd Baron Dufferin and Claneboye (category High sheriffs of Down)
    in the House of Lords as an Irish representative peer from 1820 to 1836. He was High Sheriff of Down for 1804 and governor of County Down 1830–36. He served...
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  • Gerald Gartlan (category High sheriffs of Down)
    lieutenant for his native County Down in 1952. In 1954 he was High Sheriff of Down and the following year was made a justice of the peace. Smart 2005, p. 114...
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    peerage it did not entitle him to a seat in the House of Lords. He served as High Sheriff of Down for 1828. He married Jane Gun-Cuninghame in 1814, they...
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  • William Brownlow Forde (category High sheriffs of Down)
    the Hon Robert Meade, of Burrenwood, in 1855, and was High Sheriff of County Down, 1853; Lieutenant-Colonel, the Royal South Down Militia; Colonel, 1854–1881...
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  • Sir Thomas Dixon, 2nd Baronet (category High sheriffs of Down)
    of the Senate of Northern Ireland from 1924 to 1950, and was admitted to the Privy Council of Northern Ireland in 1931. He served as High Sheriff of Antrim...
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  • David Stewart Ker (category High sheriffs of Down)
    deputy lieutenant and High Sheriff of County Down for 1852 and High Sheriff of Antrim for 1857. He was elected the Member of Parliament for Downpatrick...
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  • The High Sheriff of Donegal was the British Crown's judicial representative in County Donegal in Ulster, Ireland, from the late 16th century until 1922...
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    of the sheriffs and (after 1 April 1974) high sheriffs of Wiltshire. Until the 14th century, the shrievalty was held ex officio by the castellans of Old...
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