This is a list of
High Sheriffs of
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire ...
.
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 March.
Between 1974 and 1996 the shrievalty in Lincolnshire was interrupted when the County of
Humberside
Humberside () was a non-metropolitan and ceremonial county in Northern England from 1 April 1974 until 1 April 1996. It was composed of land from either side of the Humber Estuary, created from portions of the East Riding of Yorkshire, West ...
took over the complete northern part of the county. In 1996 the northern
bailiwick
A bailiwick () is usually the area of jurisdiction of a bailiff, and once also applied to territories in which a privately appointed bailiff exercised the sheriff's functions under a royal or imperial writ. The bailiwick is probably modelled on th ...
s reverted to
Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire ...
once more, after eight North Lincolnshire based
High Sheriffs of Humberside had administered the area.
10th to 12th century
*Thorold
*Alwin
*Thorold
*c.1066–1068: Merleswein
["Domesday Book Online"]
*1068–:
Ivo de Taillebois
*?-1115: Osbert
*1115-: Wigod
*c1129: Rainer of Bath
*1130s: Hacon
*1154: Rainer of Bath
*1155: Jordan of Blossevilla
*1156–1162: Walter de Amundevel
*1163–1164: Peter de Gossa
*1165: William de Lisle
*1166 Aluredus de Poiltona
*1167–1168: Philip de Kyme
*1169–1170: Walter of Grimesby
*1171–1174: Walter and Aluredus de Poiltona
*1175–1176: Drogo, son of Radulph
*1177–1183:
William Basset of Sapcote, Leics
*1184–1187: Nigel, son of Alexander
*1189:
Gerard de Camville
Gerard de Canville (died 1214), often written Camville, was an Anglo-Norman landowner and administrator who was a loyal supporter of King Henry II of England and of his son King John, and through his wife obtained the posts of sheriff of Lincol ...
and Roger de Stikewald
*1190:
Gerard de Camville
Gerard de Canville (died 1214), often written Camville, was an Anglo-Norman landowner and administrator who was a loyal supporter of King Henry II of England and of his son King John, and through his wife obtained the posts of sheriff of Lincol ...
*1191:
William de Stuteville
William de Stuteville (died 1203) Baron of Cottingham in the East Riding of Yorkshire, Lord of Buttercrambe in the North Riding of Yorkshire, was an English noble.
He was the eldest son of Robert de Stuteville and Helewise de Murdac. William ...
*1191–1192:
Gerard de Camville
Gerard de Canville (died 1214), often written Camville, was an Anglo-Norman landowner and administrator who was a loyal supporter of King Henry II of England and of his son King John, and through his wife obtained the posts of sheriff of Lincol ...
and Roger de Stikewald
*1193:
Gerard de Camville
Gerard de Canville (died 1214), often written Camville, was an Anglo-Norman landowner and administrator who was a loyal supporter of King Henry II of England and of his son King John, and through his wife obtained the posts of sheriff of Lincol ...
and Eustatius de Hedenham
*1194: Simon de Kyme and Peter de Trehanton
*1195–1196: Simon de Kyme and Peter of Beckering and Robert de Trehanton
*1197: Philip son of Robert
*1199:
Robert de Tatteshall
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...
13th century
14th century
15th century
16th century
17th century
18th century
19th century
20th century
Present century
Notes
References
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Bibliography
* White, E.A., Armytage, G.J. (eds.) (1897)
The Baptismal, Marriage, and Burial Registers of the Cathedral Church ... of Durham: 1609-1896(Harleian Society Publications, Register Series, vol. xxiii)
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Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire ...
History of Lincolnshire
Local government in Lincolnshire
High Sheriffs