Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire explained
This is an incomplete list of sheriffs of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire in England from 1154 until the abolition of the office in 1965.[1]
Exceptionally, the two counties shared a single sheriff.[2] Sheriffs had a one-year term of office, being appointed at a meeting of the privy council generally held in February or March and holding office until the similar meeting in the next year.[3] In 1648 it became the practice to rotate the office between inhabitants of Cambridgeshire proper, the Isle of Ely and Huntingdonshire. This was done in a three-year cycle, with an inhabitant of each area occupying the office in turn.[4] Note: the years shown are the date of commencement of the sheriff's year of office. For example, the high sheriff appointed in March 1892 "for the year 1892" held office until March 1893.
Before 1200
- Before 1154 – See High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire
- 1154: Richard Basset and Aubrey de Vere
- 1155–1161: Payn and Robert Grimball
- 1162: Nicholai de Chenet
- Michaelmas 1163: Hamo Petom or Pecc'm
- 1165: Hamo Petom and Philip de Daventry
- Easter 1166: Philip de Daventry
- 1166–1168: Philip de Daventry
- Easter 1170: Everard de Beach and Warin de Basingborn
- 1171–1176: Everard de Beach
- Easter 1177: Walter son of Hugonis
- 1180: Walter son of Hugonis and William, son of Stephen
- Michaelmas 1182: Radulph or Ralph de Bardulf
- 1183: Walter son of Hugonis
- Michaelmas 1185: Nicholas, son of Robert
- 1189: Nicholas son of Robert
- Michaelmas 1189: William Muschet
- Michaelmas 1191: Richard Anglicus
- Michaelmas 1192: Richard (Reginald) de Argenton
- 1196: Thomas de Huntsdon
- Michaelmas 1195: Werricus de Marignes
- 1197: Merric de Marignes
- Michaelmas 1197: Robert de Lisle
1900–1965
Bibliography
Notes and References
- The title of the office of sheriff in English counties did not change to high sheriff until 1974—nearly a decade after the abolition of the office of Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire (see high sheriff).
- Book: Cambridgeshire. McKenny Hughes. T. Hughes. Mary Caroline. 1909. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. Cambridge County Geographies. 313–314.
- Sheriffs Act 1887 c.55 s.32
- Book: Carter, Edmund. The history of the county of Cambridge, from the earliest account to the present time. S. &. R. Bentley. Edmund Carter (topographer). 1819. London. 352–365. none.