• This is a list of Sheriffs of Monmouthshire, an office which was created in 1536 but not fully settled[clarification needed] until 1540. On 1 April 1974...
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    Monmouthshire (/ˈmɒnməθʃər, ˈmʌn-, -ʃɪər/ MON-məth-shər, MUN-, -⁠sheer; Welsh: Sir Fynwy) is a county in the south east of Wales. It borders Powys to the...
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    Nathaniel Wells (category High sheriffs of Monmouthshire)
    first Black sheriff when he was appointed sheriff of Monmouthshire by the Prince Regent, and a deputy lieutenant of the county. On 20 June 1820, Wells was...
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    Until 1974, Monmouthshire (/ˈmɒnməθʃər, ˈmʌn-, -ʃɪər/ MON-məth-shər, MUN-, -⁠sheer), also formerly known as the County of Monmouth (/ˈmɒnməθ, ˈmʌn-/ MON-məth...
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  • Probert (category Surnames of Welsh origin)
    Sheriff of Monmouthshire under Henry VIII (1542–1543) and Mary I of England (1554–1555) Henry Probert, Sheriff of Monmouthshire under Charles I of England...
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    Desmond Llewelyn (category Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
    paternal grandfather, Llewelyn Llewelyn of Kings Hill was the High Sheriff of Monmouthshire as well as General Manager of the Powell-Dyffryn Steam Coal Company...
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  • Thomas Morgan (MP died 1603) (category High sheriffs of Monmouthshire)
    William Morgan. He was a Justice of the Peace for Monmouthshire from c. 1570 and appointed High Sheriff of Monmouthshire for 1580–81. He served a Deputy...
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    Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover (category High sheriffs of Monmouthshire)
    was a son of the industrialist Benjamin Hall. He went to Westminster School. He was a Sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1826. He was elected Member of Parliament...
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    Baron Tredegar (category Extinct baronies in the Peerage of the United Kingdom)
    his uncle and namesake, John Morgan (d. 1715), High Sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1697 and Member of Parliament for Monmouth, a merchant who had amassed...
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    Rolls family (category History of Monmouthshire)
    and of the Hendre, Monmouthshire, High Sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1794. Much of his property in both Monmouthshire and London came through his marriage...
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    Nicholas Kemeys (category High sheriffs of Monmouthshire)
    third son of Rhys Kemeys. Nicholas Kemeys was MP for Monmouthshire 1628 to 1629 and High Sheriff of Monmouthshire for 1631 and Sheriff of Glamorganshire...
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  • Firbank (High Sheriff of Monmouthshire and MP for Kingston upon Hull East) Paul Flynn (former Newport West MP) John Frost (Chartist and Mayor of Newport) Charles...
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    William Harrison (instrument maker) (category High sheriffs of Monmouthshire)
    elected Sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1791. He died in 1815 and was buried in his father's tomb in St John's churchyard, Hampstead. The south face of the tomb...
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    John Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock (category High sheriffs of Monmouthshire)
    Sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1875, and served as MP for Monmouthshire from 1880 to 1885. In 1892 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Llangattock, of...
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    William Bedloe (category History of Catholicism in the United Kingdom)
    officer, and a cousin of William Kemys (or Kemish), who became High Sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1678. Bedloe appears to have been well educated; he was certainly...
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    Piercefield House (category History of Monmouthshire)
    (12 km2). In 1818 he became Britain's only known black sheriff when he was appointed Sheriff of Monmouthshire. Wells put the estate up for sale in 1825 after...
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    Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar (category High sheriffs of Monmouthshire)
    Sheriff of Monmouthshire for 1858. Tredegar succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Tredegar in 1875. In May 1902 he bought the lordships of the manor of Newport...
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  • he was Sheriff of Monmouthshire. In 1624, Morgan was elected Member of Parliament for Monmouthshire. He was re-elected MP for Monmouthshire in 1625....
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    Wyelands (category Grade II* listed buildings in Monmouthshire)
    appointed Sheriff of Monmouthshire. The property was sold first to John Russell (1788-1873), a colliery owner and magistrate, who in turn became Sheriff of Monmouthshire...
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  • William Herbert (MP fl.1555) (category High sheriffs of Monmouthshire)
    Monmouthshire. His father died in 1551 during his term of office as High Sheriff of Monmouthshire and William stepped in to complete the term. He inherited his father's...
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  • Sir Trevor Williams, 1st Baronet (category Baronets in the Baronetage of England)
    His son, Charles, who became M.P. for Monmouthshire and was knighted in 1621, also became Sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1627. Sir Charles, Trevor's father...
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  • William Royse Lysaght (category High sheriffs of Monmouthshire)
    became High Sheriff of Monmouthshire, and was appointed CBE in the 1918 New Year Honours for his services as an adviser to the wartime Ministry of Munitions...
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  • Sir Charles Kemeys, 2nd Baronet (category High sheriffs of Glamorgan)
    Kemeys, 1st Baronet was MP for Monmouth in 1628, High Sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1621 and High Sheriff of Glamorgan in 1638, before being created the first...
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    in Monmouthshire, Wales. The town is located between Chepstow and the city of Newport. The site adjoins the Caldicot Levels, on the north side of the...
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    Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar (category High sheriffs of Monmouthshire)
    High Sheriff of Monmouthshire for 1821–22 and High Sheriff of Brecknockshire for 1850–51. He was created Baron Tredegar, of Tredegar in the County of Monmouth...
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  • (1791–1858), ironmaster, sheriff of Monmouthshire Watson Fothergill, English architect William Edward Fothergill (1865–1926), professor of clinical obstetrics...
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  • South Wales valleys in the mid-nineteenth century. He was High Sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1855. Russell was born in1796 at Broseley, Shropshire, but moved...
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  • the Pont-hir iron-works and sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1829. He was the son of Richard Fothergill. FOTHERGILL. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved...
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    May 1870) was a High Sheriff of Monmouthshire, art collector, Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace. Rolls was President of, and co-founded the Monmouth...
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  • was High Sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1633. Arnold married Margaret Evan, daughter of John Evan of Dorset. W R Williams Parliamentary History of the Principality...
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