High Sheriff of Cumberland

The High Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. Formerly the High Sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the centuries most of the responsibilities associated with the post have been transferred elsewhere or are now defunct, so that its functions are now largely ceremonial. The High Sheriff changes every April.

The post of High Sheriff of Cumberland existed from the creation of the county in the twelfth century up until 1974 when the administrative and ceremonial or geographic county of Cumberland became part of Cumbria.

List of High Sheriffs

High Sheriffs of Cumberland have included:

*1265: Roger de Leybourne
*1612: Sir John Dalston of Dalston Hall"A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England Ireland and Scotland" Burke and Burke (1844)p149 Google Books]
*1618: Sir George Dalston of Dalston Hall
*1641: Sir Christopher Lowther, 1st Baronet
*1661: John Dalston (later Sir John Dalston Bt.)
*1810: Sir Henry Fletcher, 2nd Baronet
*1821: John Marshall [cite encyclopedia | last=Beresford | first=Maurice | title=Marshall, John (1765–1845) |encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | date=September 2004 | publisher=Oxford University Press | url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/37739 | accessdate=2008-07-14 (online available to subscribers; also in print)]
*1828: William Blamire
*1830: Christopher Parker, of Petterill Green [LondonGazette|issue=18652|startpage=257|endpage=258|date=2 February 1830|accessdate=2008-09-21]
*1831: John Taylor, of Dockray Hall [LondonGazette|issue=18772|startpage=194|endpage=195|date=1 February 1831|accessdate=2008-09-21]
*1832: Henry Howard, of Corby Castle [LondonGazette|issue=18900|startpage=254|endpage=255|date=6 February 1832|accessdate=2008-09-21]
*1833: Henry Curwen, of Workington Hall [LondonGazette|issue=19019|startpage=246|date=5 February 1833|accessdate=2008-09-21]
*1834: Henry Howard, of Greystoke Castle [LondonGazette|issue=19125|startpage=206|date=4 February 1834|accessdate=2008-09-21]
*1835: Richard Ferguson, of Harker Lodge [LondonGazette|issue=19238|startpage=235|endpage=236|date=9 February 1835|accessdate=2008-09-21]
*1836: Thomas Irwin, of Calder Abbey [LondonGazette|issue=19353|startpage=223|endpage=224|date=5 February 1836|accessdate=2008-09-21]
*1837: Sir Francis Fletcher-Vane, 3rd Baronet, of Armathwaite [LondonGazette|issue=19462|startpage=232|endpage=233|date=31 January 1837|accessdate=2008-09-21]
*1838: John Dixon, of Knells [LondonGazette|issue=19586|startpage=232|date=1 February 1838|accessdate=2008-09-21]
*1839: Thomas Hartley, of Gillfoot [LondonGazette|issue=19704|startpage=214|date=9 February 1839|accessdate=2008-09-21]
*1840: Sir George Musgrave, 10th Baronet, of Eden Hall [LondonGazette|issue=19819|startpage=197|endpage=198|date=31 January 1840|accessdate=2008-09-19]
*1841: James Robertson Walker, of Gillgarron [LondonGazette|issue=19948|startpage=303|endpage=304|date=5 February 1841|accessdate=2008-09-19]
*1842: Fretchville Lawson Ballantine-Dykes, of Dovenby Hall [LondonGazette|issue=20067|startpage=285|endpage=286|date=4 February 1842|accessdate=2008-09-19]
*1843: Robert Hodgson, of Salkeld Hall [LondonGazette|issue=20192|startpage=371|endpage=372|date=1 February 1843|accessdate=2008-09-19]
*1844: George Harrison, of Linethwaite [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=jc0kh800jGIC&pg=RA3-PA160&lpg=RA3-PA160 Sheriffs for the Year 1844] in "The Annual Register" for 1844, p. 160, online at books.google.com (accessed 9 September 2008)] [LondonGazette|issue=20311|startpage=347|endpage=348|date=31 January 1844|accessdate=2008-09-19]
*1845: Timothy Fetherstonhaugh, of the College, Kirkoswald [LondonGazette|issue=20439|startpage=315|endpage=316|date=4 February 1845|accessdate=2008-09-19]
*1846: Joseph Pocklington Senhouse, of Barrow House and Netherhall [LondonGazette|issue=20566|startpage=361|endpage=362|date=30 January 1846|accessdate=2008-09-19]
*1847: Gilfrid William Hartley, of Rose Hill [LondonGazette|issue=20698|startpage=410|endpage=411|date=5 February 1847|accessdate=2008-09-19]
*1848: Henry Dundas Maclean, of Lazonby [LondonGazette|issue=20825|startpage=541|endpage=542|date=11 February 1848|accessdate=2008-09-19]
*1849: Andrew Fleming Huddleston, of Hutton John [LondonGazette|issue=20944|startpage=431|endpage=432|date=13 February 1849|accessdate=2008-09-19]
*1850: Thomas Salkeld, of Holm Hill [LondonGazette|issue=21065|startpage=313|date=5 February 1850|accessdate=2008-04-16]
*1851: George Head Head, of Rickerby House [LondonGazette|issue=21181|startpage=363|date=11 February 1851|accessdate=2008-07-28]
*1852: George Henry Oliphant, of Broadfield House [LondonGazette|issue=21287|startpage=289|date=3 February 1852|accessdate=2008-04-16]
*1853: Francis Baring Atkinson, of Rampsbeck Lodge [LondonGazette|issue=21409|startpage=329|date=8 February 1853|accessdate=2008-04-16]
*1854: Thomas Alison Hoskins, of Higham [LondonGazette|issue=21517|startpage=265|date=31 January 1854|accessdate=2008-04-16]
*1855: Thomas Story Spedding, of Mirehouse [LondonGazette|issue=21660|startpage=470|date=9 February 1855|accessdate=2008-04-16]
*1856: Sir Henry Ralph Fletcher-Vane, 4th Baronet, of Hutton in the Forest and Armathwaite [LondonGazette|issue=21844|startpage=361|date=31 January 1856|accessdate=2008-04-16]
*1857: Charles Fetherstonhaugh, of Staffield Hall [LondonGazette|issue=21964|startpage=379|date=3 February 1857|accessdate=2008-04-16]
*1858: Anthony Benn Steward, of Chapel House [LondonGazette|issue=22091|startpage=539|date=3 February 1858|accessdate=2008-04-16]
*1859: Gamel Pennington, 4th Baron Muncaster, of Muncaster Castle [LondonGazette|issue=22226|startpage=454|date=2 February 1859|accessdate=2008-04-16]
*1891: John Stirling Ainsworth, of Harecroft [LondonGazette|issue=26146|startpage=1653|date=24 March 1891|accessdate=2008-02-11]

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