This is a list of civic sheriffs and high sheriffs of the County of the City of Bristol, England.

The office of high sheriff is over 1,000 years old, with its establishment before the Norman Conquest. The high sheriff remained first in precedence in the counties until the reign of Edward VII when an Order in Council in 1908 gave the lord-lieutenant the prime office under the Crown as the sovereign's personal representative. The high sheriff remains the sovereign's representative in the county for all matters relating to the judiciary and the maintenance of law and order.

Bristol is unusual in having had county status since medieval times (1373).Charter of 1373 (Edward III), printed in Seyer, Memoirs of Bristol, vol. 2 (1823), pp. 177–181.Latimer, J., Annals of Bristol in the Fourteenth Century (Bristol, 1908). The Lord Mayor and one or sometimes two sheriffs served as part of its civic governance. The county was expanded to include suburbs such as Clifton in 1835, and it was named a county borough in 1889, when the term was first introduced. However, on 1 April 1974 it became a part of the local government county of Avon. On 1 April 1996 Avon was abolished, allowing the city of Bristol to become a unitary authority and gain its ceremonial independence and county status as the County of City of Bristol, with the royal appointments of Lord-Lieutenant and High Sheriff.

Civic (not High) Sheriff Office holders

14th & 15th century Sheriffs of Bristol typically took office at the end of September and served until September of the following year.

16th century

17th century

18th century

19th century

20th century

High Sheriffs for the County of City of Bristol

20th century 1996–1997: George Robin Paget Ferguson of Clifton 1997–1998: Richard Appleby Lalonde of Clifton 1998–1999: Edwin Howard Webber of Sneyd Park 1999–2000: John Richard Pool of Clifton

21st century

In nomination as prospective High Sheriffs: Mohammed Elfatih Elsharif of Southmead Andrew Street of Long Ashton, N Somerset

References Mayors and Sheriffs of Bristol 1500–1599 Mayors and Sheriffs of Bristol 1600–1699 Mayors and Sheriffs of Bristol 1700–1799 Mayors and Sheriffs of Bristol 1800–1899 Mayors and Sheriffs of Bristol 1900–2000

External links Official website of the High Sheriff of Bristol