High Sheriff of Shropshire

This is a list of sheriffs and high sheriffs of Shropshire

The 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. From 1204 to 1344 the Sheriff of Staffordshire served also as the Sheriff of Shropshire.

Under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1972, on 1 April 1974 the office previously known as sheriff was retitled high sheriff. The high sheriff changes every March.

Sheriff

11th century

Warin the Bald c. 1086 Rainald De Balliol, De Knightley (1040–1086) 1102 Hugh (son of Warin)

12th century -1114: Alan fitz Flaad (died 1114) 1127–1137: Pain fitzJohn (died 1137) 1137–1138: William Fitz Alan (exiled 1138) 1155–1159: William Fitz Alan (died 1160) 1160–1165: Guy le Strange 1166–1169: Geoffrey de Vere 1170:Geoffrey de Vere and William Clericus 1171–1179: Guy le Strange 1180–1189: Hugh Pantulf, 4th Baron of Wem 1190–1201: William fitz Alan II (died 1210)

13th and 14th centuries

1204–1344 See High Sheriff of Staffordshire 1208 Reginald de Lega (acting) 1228 (or before) Henry de Deneston 'Plea Rolls for Staffordshire: 1228', Staffordshire Historical Collections, vol. 4 (1883), p.71: Henry de Anestun (de Deneston), then Sheriff and Coroner 1228 Henry de Verdun (I)'Plea Rolls for Staffordshire: 1228', Staffordshire Historical Collections, vol. 4 (1883), p.71: Henry de Verdun, Sheriff and Coroner, states he was not outlawed, but that they took sureties for him. They, i.e., the Sheriffs, are therefore in misericordiâ 1285: Sir Roger de Pulesdon (otherwise 'de Pyvelesdon')Calendar of Charter Rolls, Volume II, Henry III – Edward I. A.D. 1257–1300 (HM Stationery Office, Pub. by mackie & Co, Fleet St, 1906), p.294-5. 7 June 1285 at Westminster, Membrane 25, confirmation of a charter of Henry III: ...before Roger de Pyvelesdon, sheriff of Salop and Stafford 1354–1359 John de Burton A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank: But Uninvested with Heritable Honours, Volume 4 1377: Sir John Burley 1377: Sir Bryan Cornwall of Burford, Shropshire 1378: John Ludlow 1379: John de Drayton 1380: Roger Hord 1381: John Shery 1382: Edward Acton of Longnor 1383: John de Stepulton 1384: Edward Acton of Longnor 1386: Nicholas de Sandford 1387: Robert de Lee 1388: John de la Pole (alias Mowetho), of Mawddwy and Wattlesborough 1388: Robert de Ludlow 1389: Edward Acton of Longnor 1390: John de Stepulton 1391: Sir William Hugford of Apley, Salop and Wilden, Beds 1392: Henry de Winesbury 1393: John de Eyton of Eyton upon the Weald MoorsA Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland Vol 1, John and John Bernard Burke (1847) p391 Google Books 1394: Thomas de Lee of South Bache in Diddlebury 1395: William Worthie 1396: Sir William Hugford of Apley, Salop and Wilden, Beds 1397–1398: Adamus de Pashal 1399: John Cornwall of Kinlet

15th century

16th century

17th century

18th century

19th century

20th century

High sheriffs

20th century

21st century

Footnotes

References The History of the Worthies of England volume 3