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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: High Sheriffs of Yorkshire, Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, High Sheriff of Yorkshire, Geoffrey, Hugh Bardulf, Thomas Gargrave, Arthur Ingram, Sir Peter Buckton, Geoffrey Fitz Peter, 1st Earl of Essex, High Sheriff of Hallamshire, Samuel Lister, 1st Baron Masham, Sir John Ramsden, 5th Baronet, Henry Wentworth, Edwin Airey, Andrew Fairbairn, Richard Bethell, Charles Duncombe, 1st Baron Feversham, Sir Richard Hutton, the younger, Guy Palmes, Walter Fawkes, Peter de Rivaux, William Harrison-Broadley, Henry of Bath, Sir James Walker, 2nd Baronet, Sir Henry Edwards, 1st Baronet, Sir George Orby Wombwell, 4th Baronet, William Malet, Sir William Amcotts-Ingilby, 2nd Baronet, Cotton Gargrave, Sir Thomas Slingsby, 2nd Baronet, High Sheriff of the East Riding of Yorkshire, George Armytage, Sir William Robinson, 1st Baronet, Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet, of Swillington, High Sheriff of North Yorkshire, William Danby, John Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy de Knayth, Sir Charles Strickland, 8th Baronet, High Sheriff of South Yorkshire, Kenneth Hargreaves, Sir Charles Turner, 1st Baronet, of Kirkleatham, Sir Matthew Boynton, 1st Baronet, High Sheriff of West Yorkshire, High Sheriff of Humberside, High Sheriff of Cleveland, Sir William Pennyman, 1st Baronet, Henry Willoughby, 5th Baron Middleton, Sir William Plumpton, Ralph Creyke, Hon. Richard Gustavus Hamilton-Russell, William Aykroyd. Excerpt: The High Sheriff of Yorkshire was an ancient High Sheriff title originating in the time of the Angles, not long after the invasion of the Kingdom of England, which was in existence for around a thousand years. A list of the sheriffs from the Norman conquest onwards can be found below. The High Shrievalties are the oldest secular titles under the Crown in England and Wales, their purpose being to represent the monarch at a local level, histor...
