High Sheriff of Cumberland

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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.

[edit] List of High Sheriffs

High Sheriffs of Cumberland have included:

• 1641: Sir Christopher Lowther, 1st Baronet
• 1810: Sir Henry Fletcher, 2nd Baronet
• 1828: William Blamire
• 1834: Henry Howard, of Greystoke Castle^[1]

• 1850: Thomas Salkeld, of Holm-Hill^[2]
• 1851: George Head Head, of Rickerby-House^[3]
• 1852: George Henry Oliphant, of Broadfield-House^[4]
• 1853: Francis Baring Atkinson, of Rampsbeck-Lodge^[5]
• 1854: Thomas Alison Hoskins, of Higham^[6]
• 1855: Thomas Story Spedding, of Mirehouse^[7]
• 1856: Sir Henry Ralph Fletcher-Vane, 4th Baronet, of Hutton-Hall and Armathwaite^[8]
• 1857: Charles Fetherstonhaugh, of Staffield-Hall^[9]
• 1858: Anthony Benn Steward, of Chapel-House^[10]
• 1859: Gamel Pennington, 4th Baron Muncaster, of Muncaster Castle^[11]

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