Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire information
This is an incompletelist of sheriffs of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire in England from 1154 until the abolition of the office in 1965.[1]
Exceptionally, the two counties shared a single sheriff.[2] Sheriffs had a one-year term of office, being appointed at a meeting of the privy council generally held in February or March and holding office until the similar meeting in the next year.[3] In 1648 it became the practice to rotate the office between inhabitants of Cambridgeshire proper, the Isle of Ely and Huntingdonshire. This was done in a three-year cycle, with an inhabitant of each area occupying the office in turn.[4]
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008)
Note: the years shown are the date of commencement of the sheriff's year of office. For example, the high sheriff appointed in March 1892 "for the year 1892" held office until March 1893.
^The title of the office of sheriff in English counties did not change to high sheriff until 1974—nearly a decade after the abolition of the office of Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire (see high sheriff).
^McKenny Hughes, T; Hughes, Mary Caroline (1909). Cambridgeshire. Cambridge County Geographies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 313–314.
^Sheriffs Act 1887 c.55 s.32
^Carter, Edmund (1819). The history of the county of Cambridge, from the earliest account to the present time. London: S. &. R. Bentley. pp. 352–365.
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