This is a list of Sheriffs and High Sheriffs of Leicestershire, United Kingdom. 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. 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.
For a period prior to 1566 the Sheriff of Warwickshire was also the Sheriff of Leicestershire. After some years as part of Leicestershire, Rutland was split away in 1996 as a Unitary Authority with its own shrievalty. Thus there is a separate High Sheriff of Rutland (an office that existed prior to 1974 as the Sheriff of Rutland).
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English landowner, of Baggrave Hall, Leicestershire, a Justice of the Peace, Deputy Lieutenant, and HighSheriffofLeicestershire in 1864. He also succeeded...
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Commander of the 2/5th Leicestershire Regiment during World War I, HighSheriffofLeicestershire in 1931 and Chairman of the Leicestershire Territorial...
Burton of Braunston, whose son was the first of the Burton baronets of Stockerston. In 1633, Sir Thomas Burton Bt was HighSheriffofLeicestershire and...
Leicestershire, who had been HighSheriffof Warwickshire and Leicestershire in 1193. Stephen became a knight and was made constable of the Tower of London...
original manor house and Dixie Grammar School. In 1614 he was HighSheriffofLeicestershire and in 1625 its representative in Parliament. "Sir (Alexander)...
and rose to be a HighSheriffofLeicestershire. Charles Loraine was born in 1751. His father was Sir Charles Loraine, the 3rd baronet of Kirk Harle, and...
have been a "prosperous sheep farmer". He was HighSheriffofLeicestershire in 1591, and a Knight of the shire for the county from 1604 until his death...
first heard of as Sheriffof Yorkshire, Warwickshire and Leicestershire from 1163 to 1170 when, along with the majority ofHighSheriffs, he was removed...
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