The Sheriff of Canterbury is a shrievalty in the city of Canterbury, England . The office was first held in 1461 by Richard Carpenter, when a charter of king Edward IV granted the city the perpetual status of a county independent of Kent itself. The role was at that time involved in police and legal functions (overseeing public executions, collecting taxes and having powers of arrest), but is now honorific. The role survived the local government reorganisation of 1974, when a large number of other areas lost County Borough status and thus had their Sheriffs' posts abolished, and the Sheriff is still elected at the Annual Council Meeting in May. Canterbury City Council in 2002 merged the role of deputy Chairman of the Council into that of Sheriff, to create a Civic Team of only the Sheriff and the Lord Mayor.
List of holders
Source :[ 1]
1461 Richard Carpenter :first Sheriff of Canterbury
1462 Hamon Bele
1463 John Bygge
1464 John Wattys
1465 William Bele
1466 Walter Hopton
1467 Richard Carpenter
1468 John Bygge
1469 Thomas Atte Wode
1470 William Faunt
1471 Nicholas Sheldewych
1522 Robert Lewys : MP for Canterbury , 1539 and 1545
1529 John Starky : MP for Canterbury , 1539[ 2]
1530 Francis Rutland
1531 James Thomson
1532 John Johnson
1533 John Toftos
1534 John Alcock
1535 John Hobbys
1536 Thomas Calowe
1537 George Webbe : MP for Canterbury , 1553
1538 William Copyn : MP for Canterbury , 1553 and 1554
1539 Henry Gere
1540 John Fuller
1541 Robert Brown
1542 Thomas Batherste
1543 Roger Welles
1544 John Twyne : headmaster of the newly reconstituted King's School in 1542, MP for Canterbury , 1553 and 1554.[ 3]
1549 George Maye : MP for Canterbury , 1559
1551 Thomas Walker
1563 Anthony Webbe : MP for Canterbury , 1572
1572 Bartholomew Brome : MP for Canterbury , 1589
1575 Bartholomew Brome : MP for Canterbury , 1589
18th century
1700 George Hall
1701 John Friend
1702 Thomas Lineall
1703 William Pysing
1704 Edward Hayward
1705 William Bolting
1706 Stephen Browne
1707 John Garratt
1708 John Parker
1709 Daniel Hall
1710 Michael Fowle
1711 William Edridge
1712 John Greenland
1713 Thomas Loftie
1714 Edward Charlton
1715 ?
1716 Thomas Bullock
1717 Thomas Fowle
1718 Richard Picard
1719 William Browning
1720 William Frances
1721 William Harris
1722 Thomas Gray
1723 John Tolputt
1724 John Rigden
1725 Richard Young
1726 William Reynolds
1727 John Berry
1728 Charles Knowler
1729 John Wear
1730 William Carter
1731 Charles Eve
1732 William Rigden
1733 Richard Jenkin
1734 Thomas Walker
1735 John Watts
1736 James Tonge
1737 Henry Parker
1738 Thomas Denne
1739 Joseph Sawkins
1740 Joseph Greenland
1741 Mark Thomas
1742 Edward Hayward
1743 John Davison
1744 William Cooke
1745 Richard Botting
1746 Thomas Johnson
1747 John Wallis
1748 Valentine Cantis
1749 John Toker
1750 Thomas Creed
1751 Samuel Johnson
1752 Edward Scudamore
1753 William Reynolds
1754 John Robinson
1755 William Rucke
1756 William Adams
1757 Stephen Pilcher
1758 John Buckhurst
1759 Thomas Smith
1760 Hercules Hills
1761 Edward Miller
1762 Henry Hatcher
1763 William Long
1764 Thomas Young
1765 Laurence Tuck
1766 George Lacy
1767 John Taddy
1768 John Halbert
1769 Thomas Hammond
1770 Stephen Richards
1771 Hopkins Francis
1772 James Simmons
1773 Thomas Elwyn
1774 Arthur Skeero Lofty
1775 Thomas Marsh
1776 Thomas Noble
1777 Richard Staines
1778 Cyprian Rondeau Bunce
1779 Richard Halford
1780 Richard Harris Barham
1781 Thomas Stringer
1782 Samuel Balderston
1783 Richard Elwin
1784 Edward Crayford
1785 Henry Gipps
1786 John Baker : MP for Canterbury , 1796, 1797 and 1802
1787 John Hollingbery Stringer
1788 Thomas Hammond the younger
1789 Richard Frend
1790 John Hodges
1791 Daniel Stock
1792 Richard Mount
1793 Thomas Starr
1794 Thomas Parker
1795 Henry Simmons
1796 Samuel Lepine
1797 Thomas Edwards Salmon
1798 William Hutt
1799 Jesse White
19th century
1800 William Wilcox
1801 John Cooper
1802 William Jones
1803 Charles Pont
1804 James Claris
1805 John Browne
1806 John James Peirce
1807 James Warren
1808 George Elwin
1809 Thomas Starr
1810 Robert John Sprakeling
1811 James Lawrence
1812 Clough Leese
1813 Stephen Couchman
1814 Thomas Hooker
1815 Russell Whitebread Lavender
1816 John Clements
1817 John Nutt
1818 Hammond Nicholls
1819 William Sharp
1820 Larkin, Allan
1821 Samuel Powell
1822 George Wood
1823 John Thomas Linford
1824 William Mercurius Baskerville
1825 Russell Whitebread Lavender
1826 William Sharp
1827 George White
1828 Thomas Hart
1829 James Dalmar
1830 John Weeks
1831 James Ridout
1832 William Philpot
1833 Richard Minter Mount
1834 Thomas Tolbut Pope
1835 James Read Reader
1836 William Ruglyn
1837 Thomas T DeLassaux
1838 Jacob Mills Davey
1839 James Fyfe
1840 George Cooper
1841 Richard F Beioley
1842 Thomas Wilkinson
1843 Charles Brock
1844 Joseph Jackson
1845 Frederick F Cobb
1846 William James Cooper
1847 Robert George Chipperfield
1848 William Sladden
1849 Thomas Pauli DeLassaux
1850 George Wall
1851 Robert Walker
1852 Thomas Thorpe DeLassaux
1853 Joseph Jackson
1854 John George Drury
1855 John Brent, jun.
1856 William Welby
1857 William Cannon, jun.
1858 George Harrison
1859 Thomas White Collard
1860 Herbert T Sankey
1861 Bartlett Allen Chambers
1862 Allen Fielding
1863 Francis Read Bateman
1864 Henry Hart
1865 George Grace
1866 Thomas Boorman
1867 Thomas T DeLassaux
1868 Alfred Cooley
1869 Alfred James Beer
1870 William Henry Linom
1871 James Coppin
1872 Frederick Root
1873 Charles Goulden
1874 James Dance
1875 Edward Reyner
1876 William Mount
1877 Henry Miskin
1878 George Royle Frend
1879 Francis R Bateman
1880 William Robert Young
1881 Thomas Cross
1882 Henry Bell Wilson
1883 Thomas Wells
1884 John Ed Wiltshier
1885 Samuel Prentice
1886 William Watson Mason
1887 Thomas Burren
1888 Charles William Allen
1889–1890 William R Harris
1891 Samuel Will Dean
1892 Samuel S Warren
1893 Frederick Kennett
1894 George Herbert Frend
1895 William John Russell
1896–1897 Edward Lukey
1898 Edward George Stead
1899 Stephen Horsley
20th century
1900 George Pope
1901 Frederick Thomas Gentry
1902 Julian Frank Whicheard
1903 William Horne
1904 Frederick John Godden
1905 Thomas Wood
1906 Thomas Bourne
1907 Robert William Whittaker
1908 Albert William Anderson
1910 Herbert John Belsey
1911 Edward Vincent Dean
1912 Albert Shreeves Paine
1913 John Gilbert Johnson
1914 William George Dickens
1915 James Benn
1916 Fortescue West
1917 L. A. Philpot
1918 A. Pentecost
1919 Charles Richardson
1920 Robert H Arrowsmith
1921 James McClemens
1922 Percy Robert Finn
1923 Lucy Green Wells
1924 Charles W. R. Philips
1925 John Fuller Lamb
1926 Albert E. Vandersteen
1927 Frank Hooker
1928 Walter Richard Pierce
1929 Frank Wood
1930 Violet May Williamson
1931 Edward Reginald Crow
1932 John William Edwards
1933 James Partridge
1934 Alfred Baynton
1935 John Bernard Thompson
1936 Herbert Rigden
1937 William Frederick Simpson
1938 George Robert Barrett
1939 Gerald Montague Kingsford
1940 Norman Haigh Wightwick
1942 Evelyn Mary Hews
1943 Augustus Wallace Fowler
1944 John George Bosworth Stone
1945 Percy Botting
1946 Harold Pullen Dawton
1947-1949 William Henry Chessell
1949 Thomas Baglin White
1950 Thomas Edward Carling
1951 John Robert Barrett
1952 William Stephen Bean
1953 Harry Martin Kenny
1954 Stanley Herbert Jennings
1955 William Thomas
1957 Peter Lewis Wood
1958 Miriam Alice Sharp
1959 Gilbert H.G. Kennett (Died 23 May 1959 and replaced by Ernest Edward Kingsman)
1960 Edwin George Shersby
1961 Clive Frederick Pare
1962 Edward Cecil Ferguson Brown
1963 Cyril Alfred Leslie Ash
1964 Arthur Vivian Wilson
1965 Kenneth George Hills
1966 Herbert Joseph Buckworth
1967 Kathleen Mary Ellis
1968 Ellen Mary Rothermel
1969 Bernard Augustine Porter
1970 Leonard Roy Bennett
1971 Mary Ross Keith-Lucas (née Hardwicke)
1972 Rita Iris Patricia Kilvert
1973 Michael Frederick Fuller
1974 Gwendolen Edna Fortune MBE
1975 Margo Elizabeth Brown
1976 John Henry Snell
1977 Sidney George Donnithorne
1978 Arthur Ronald Palmer
1979 Leslie John Claud Stockwell
1980 John Trent
1981 John D Holgate
1982 Ignatius B Dempsey
1983 Harry Victor Legg
1984 Douglas A Fenn
1985 Tom Steele
1986 Brian P Rye
1987 Douglas R Gomm
1988 Robin Gregory
1989 William Arthur Wildman
1990 Patrick Burke
1991 Bernard Collins
1992 Iris Law
1993 Ron Flaherty
1994 Andrew Frogley
1995 Maiser Seager
1996 Martin Fisher
1997 Philip Bond
1998 Kate Panton
1999 Michael Street-Williams
21st century
2000 Jennie Bukht
2001 Jennifer Yonge
2002 Brian Hunter
2003 Fred Whitemore
2004 Richard Parkinson
2005 Lewis Norris
2006 Jeanne Harrison
2007 Gillian Reuby
2008 Charlotte MacCaul
2009 Gabrielle Davis
2010 Sally Pickersgill[ 4]
2011 Hazel McCabe
2012 Heather Taylor [ 5]
2013 (Elizabeth) Ann Taylor [ 6]
2015 Robert Jones 2022 Louise Harvey-Quirke
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