Sir Ralph Bovey, 1st and last Baronet

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 Bovey (died 1679), of Hillfields, County Warwick, England was High Sheriff of Warwickshire and, later, Bedfordshire.

In 1633 he was admitted to Gray's Inn

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. He was an attorney of the
Court of Common Pleas

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He held the office of Sheriff of Warwickshire

High Sheriff of Warwickshire

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 for 1652 and lived in Solihull

Solihull

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, Warwickshire

Warwickshire

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. He was High Sheriff of Bedfordshire

High Sheriff of Bedfordshire

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 from November 1668 to 1670 and lived in Long Stow, Cambridgeshire.

He was created 1st Baronet on 30 August 1660.

He died in 1679 without issue and was buried in linen at Long Stow. He had married the daughter of 1st Baron Maynard

Viscount Maynard

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