The High Sheriff of Lancashire is an ancient officer, now largely ceremonial, granted to Lancashire

Lancashire

Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...

, a county in North West England

North West England

North West England, informally known as The North West, is one of the nine official regions of England.North West England had a 2006 estimated population of 6,853,201 the third most populated region after London and the South East...

. High Shrievalties

High Sheriff

A high sheriff is, or was, a law enforcement officer in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States.In England and Wales, the office is unpaid and partly ceremonial, appointed by the Crown through a warrant from the Privy Council. In Cornwall, the High Sheriff is appointed by the Duke of...

 are the oldest secular titles under the Crown

The Crown

The Crown is a corporation sole that in the Commonwealth realms and any provincial or state sub-divisions thereof represents the legal embodiment of governance, whether executive, legislative, or judicial...

, in England and Wales

England and Wales

England and Wales is a jurisdiction within the United Kingdom. It consists of England and Wales, two of the four countries of the United Kingdom...

. The High Sheriff of Lancashire is the representative of the monarch in the county, and is the "Keeper of The Queen's Peace" in the county, executing judgements of the High Court

High Court of Justice

The High Court of Justice is, together with the Court of Appeal and the Crown Court, one of the Senior Courts of England and Wales...

 through an Under Sheriff.

Throughout the Middle Ages

Middle Ages

The Middle Ages is a periodization of European history from the 5th century to the 15th century. The Middle Ages follows the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and precedes the Early Modern Era. It is the middle period of a three-period division of Western history: Classic, Medieval and Modern...

, the High Sheriff was a powerful political position; the sheriffs were responsible for the maintenance of law and order

Law and order (politics)

In politics, law and order refers to demands for a strict criminal justice system, especially in relation to violent and property crime, through harsher criminal penalties...

 and various other roles. Some of its powers were relinquished in 1547 as the Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire

Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire

This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire.-References:* The Lord-Lieutenant of Lancashire, Lancashire County Council...

 was instated to deal with military duties. It was in 1908 under King Edward VII of the United Kingdom

Edward VII of the United Kingdom

Edward VII was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910...

 that the Lord Lieutenant position became more senior than the High Sheriff. Since that time the High Sheriff has broadly become an honorific title, with many of its previous roles been taken up by High Court judge

High Court judge

A High Court judge is a judge of the High Court of Justice, and represents the third highest level of judge in the courts of England and Wales. High Court judges are referred to as puisne judges...

s, magistrate

Magistrate

A magistrate is an officer of the state; in modern usage the term usually refers to a judge or prosecutor. This was not always the case; in ancient Rome, a magistratus was one of the highest government officers and possessed both judicial and executive powers. Today, in common law systems, a...

s, coroner

Coroner

A coroner is a government official who* Investigates human deaths* Determines cause of death* Issues death certificates* Maintains death records* Responds to deaths in mass disasters* Identifies unknown dead* Other functions depending on local laws...

s, local authorities, and the police.

The sheriff conventionally serves for a term of a year, with the term of office starting in March. Unlike other counties, the honour in Lancashire is bestowed by the monarch in their role as Duke of Lancaster

Duke of Lancaster

There were several Dukes of Lancaster in the 14th and early 15th Centuries. See also Duchy of Lancaster.There were three creations of the Dukedom of Lancaster....

, by pricking the Lites. This page lists persons to have held the position, and is divided by sovereign state and Royal house

Royal House

A royal house or royal dynasty consists of at least one, but usually more monarchs who are related to one another, as well as their non-reigning descendants and spouses. Monarchs of the same realm who are not related to one another are usually deemed to belong to different houses, and each house is...

.

House of Plantagenet

• 1154-1160 Bertram de Bulmer of Brancepeth and Sheriff Hutton
• 1160-1162 Geoffrey de Valoignes of Farleton and Cantsfield
• 1162-1166 Sir Bertram de Bulmer of Brancepeth and Sheriff Hutton
• 1166-1170 William de Vesci
  William de Vesci
  William FitzEustace de Vesci was an Anglo-Norman feudal lord and Sheriff.He was born in Knaresborough castle, Yorkshire to Eustace Fitz John de Burgo, Lord of Knaresborough and Beatrice de Vesci....
  
  , Lord of Alnwick
• 1170-1173 Roger de Herleberga
• 1173-1174 Ranulf de Glanvill
• 1174-1185 Ralph FitzBernard
• 1185-1185 Hugo Pipard
• 1185-1188 Gilbert Pipard
• 1188-1189 Peter Pipard
• 1189-1194 Richard de Vernon
  Vernon family
  The Vernon family was a wealthy, prolific and widespread English family with 11th century origins in Vernon, France.-Vernon of Shipbrook, Cheshire:...
  
   (1st term)
• 1194-1194 Theobald Walter, 1st Baron Butler
• 1194-1196 Benedict Garnet, of Caton
• 1196-1197 Robert de Vavasour of Hazelwood, Tadcaster
• 1197-1198 Nicholas le Boteler
• 1198-1199 Stephen of Thornham
  Stephen of Thornham
  Stephen of Thornham was a British justice and administrator. He was the son of Robert of Thornham, a Kentish landowner, and the older brother of Robert of Thornham, and first came to official attention in 1170 when, along with his father, he acted as a benefactor to Combwell Priory...
  
  
• 1199-1200 Robert de Tatteshall, near Pontefract
• 1200-1204 Richard de Vernon
  Vernon family
  The Vernon family was a wealthy, prolific and widespread English family with 11th century origins in Vernon, France.-Vernon of Shipbrook, Cheshire:...
  
   (2nd term)
• 1204-1205 Sir William Vernon
  Vernon family
  The Vernon family was a wealthy, prolific and widespread English family with 11th century origins in Vernon, France.-Vernon of Shipbrook, Cheshire:...
  
  
• 1205-1215 Gilbert FitzReinfrid, Baron of Kendal
• 1205-1215 Adam FitzRoger of Yealand (1st term)
• 1215-1216 Reginald de Cornhill
  Reginald de Cornhill
  Reginald de Cornhill was an English administrator under King John.His father, Gervase, had also been High Sheriff of Kent in 1170-74 and his brother Henry de Cornhill sheriff of London. He became the King's Justiciar, High Sheriff of Kent from 1189 to 1193 and 1196 to 1215 and High Sheriff of...
  
   of Kent
• 1216-1217 Ranulph de Blundevill
• 1217-1222 Jordan FitzRoger
• 1223-1223 Stephen de Segrave
  Stephen de Segrave
  Stephen de Segrave was a medieval Chief Justiciar of England.-Life:...
  
  
• 1223-1226 Robert de Montjoy
• 1226-1227 William de Ferrers, 4th Earl of Derby
  William de Ferrers, 4th Earl of Derby
  William II de Ferrers, 4th Earl of Derby was a favourite of King John of England. He succeeded to the estate upon the death of his father, William de Ferrers, 3rd Earl of Derby, at the Siege of Acre in 1190...
  
  
• 1227-1228 Gerard Etwell of Etwall, Derbyshire
• 1228-1232 Sir Adam de Yealand (2nd term)
• 1232-1232 Peter de Rivaux
  Peter de Rivaux
  Peter de Rivaux or Peter de Rivalis was an influential Poitevin courtier at the court of Henry III of England. He was related to Peter des Roches, being a nephew ....
  
  
• 1232-1233 William de Lancaster, Baron of Kendal
• 1233-1234 Gilbert de Wyteby
• 1234-1240 Simon de Thornton "Clericus"
• 1240-1241 John de Lancaster
• 1241-1245 Robert de Waterfal
• 1245-1246 Richard le Boteler
• 1246-1247 Sir Matthew de Redmayne, Lord of Levens
• 1247-1255 Sir Robert de Lathum
• 1255-1259 Sir Patrick de Ulvesby
• 1259-1259 Sir William le Boteler, Lord of Warrington
• 1259-1261 Sir Geoffrey de Chetham
• 1261-1264 Sir Adam de Montalt
• 1264-1267 Roger de Lancaster, Lord of Rydal
• 1267-1269 Edmund, 1st Earl of Lancaster

• 1269-1270 Sir Richard le Boteler of Rawcliffe, Fylde
• 1270-1272 John de Cansfield of Aldingham
• 1272-1274 Sir Ranulph de Dacre of Dacre, Cumberland
• 1274-1284 Sir Henry de Lea of Preston
• 1284-1290 Gilbert de Clifton
• 1291-1298 Sir Ralph de Montjoy
• 1298-1298 Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster
• 1298-1301 Richard de Hoghton
• 1301-1307 Sir Thomas Travers
• 1307-1309 William Gentyl the elder of Poulton-le-Sands
• 1309-1315 Sir Ralph de Bickerstath of Bickerstaffe (died of wounds after Battle of Preston, 1315)
• 1315-1317 Sir Edmund de Neville from Hornby
• 1317-1320 Sir Henry de Malton of Malton, Yorkshire
• 1320-1322 William Gentyl the younger
• 1322-1323 Robert de Leyburn (1st term)
• 1323-1323 John Darcy
  John Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy de Knayth
  John Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy de Knayth , was an English peer.He was born circa 1280, probably at Knaith, Lincolnshire, the son of Roger de Darcy and Isabel D’Aton....
  
  
• 1323-1326 Sir Gilbert de Southworth of Southworth, Warrington
• 1326-1326 Robert de Leyburn (2nd term, died in office)
• 1326-1327 Sir Geoffrey de Warburton
• 1327-1327 Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster
  Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster
  Henry , 3rd Earl of Leicester and Lancaster was an English nobleman, one of the principals behind the deposition of Edward II of England.-Family and lineage:...
  
  
• 1327-1328 John de Burghton
• 1328-1329 John de Hamburg
• 1329-1332 Sir John de Denum
• 1332-1335 Robert Foucher
• 1335-1336 William de Clapham of Clapham, Yorkshire
• 1336-1337 Sir William le Blount (killed in office)
• 1337-1342 Robert de Radcliffe of Ordsall, Salford
• 1342-1344 Sir John le Blount (brother of Sir William, HS 1336)
• 1344-1345 Stephen de Ireton
• 1345-1345 Henry, 1st Duke of Lancaster
• 1345-1350 John Cockayne
• 1350-1358 Sir William Scargill
• 1358-1359 William de Radcliffe
• 1359-1361 Nicholas de Coleshill
• 1361-1361 Sir John de Ipres
• 1361-1362 Adam de Hoghton
• 1362-1371 John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster
  John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster
  John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster , KG was a member of the House of Plantagenet, the third surviving son of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault...
  
  
• 1371-1371 Richard de Radcliffe
• 1371-1374 Sir John le Boteler of Warrington and Beausay
• 1374-1377 Richard Towneley
• 1377-1384 Sir Nicholas Harrington
• 1384-1387 Sir Ralph de Radcliffe
• 1387-1392 Robert de Standish
• 1392-1397 Sir John le Boteler
• 1397-1399 Richard Molyneux

House of Lancaster

• 1399-1399 Sir Richard de Hoghton
• 1399-1401 Sir Thomas Gerard
• 1401-1404 Sir John de Boteler
• 1404-1405 Sir Ralph Radcliffe
• 1405-1406 John Boteler
• 1406-1411 Sir John Bold
• 1411-1415 Sir Ralph Stanley

• 1415-1416 Sir Robert de Urswyk
• 1416-1418 Nicholas de Longford
• 1418-1422 Sir Robert Lawrence
• 1423-1426 Richard Radcliffe
• 1426-1449 Sir John Byron
• 1449-1461 Nicholas Byron

House of York

• 1461-1462 John Broughton
• 1462-1464 Sir John Assheton
• 1464-1465 John Pilkington
• 1465-1466 Thomas Pilkington

• 1466-1473 Sir Robert Urswick
• 1473-1480 Thomas Molyneux
• 1480-1485 Sir Thomas Pilkington

House of Tudor

• 1485-1497 Sir Edward Stanley
• 1497-1524 Lawrence Starkie
• 1523 Sir Alexander Radcliffe
• 1524 Sir William Molyneux of Sefton Hall
• 1526 Henry Farington of Old Worden Hall
• 1527 Sir William Leylond of Morley in Astley
• 1528 Sir Alexander Osbaldestone of Osbaldestone
• 1529 Sir Alexander Radcliffe
• 1530 Sir Richard Assheton of Middleton Hall
• 1531 Sir Henry Farington
• 1532 Sir John Towneley
• 1533 Sir Edmund Trafford
• 1534 Sir Thomas Langton of Newton-in-Makerfield
• 1535 Sir Thomas Boteler of Bewsey
• 1536 Thomas Shireburne of Aighton and Mitton
• 1536 Hugh Adlington of Adlington and Duxbury
• 1537 Sir Thomas Halsall
• 1538 John Holcroft of Melling
• 1539 Sir Alexander Radcliffe
• 1540 Sir William Laylond
• 1541 Sir Richard Hoghton
• 1542 Sir Thomas Southworth of Southworth and Salmesbury Halls.
• 1543 John Holcroft of Melling
• 1544 Sir Marmaduke Tunstall of Thurland Castle
• 1545 Sir William Norris
• 1546 Sir Thomas Holcroft
  Sir Thomas Holcroft
  Sir Thomas Holcroft was a sixteenth-century English courtier and politician.He was born at Vale Royal, Cheshire, the son of John Holcroft and Margaret Massey...
  
  
• 1547 Sir Alexander Radcliffe
• 1548 Sir Thomas Gerard
• 1549 Sir Robert Worsley
• 1550 Sir Peter Legh
• 1551 Sir John Atherton
• 1552 Sir Thomas Talbot
• 1553 Sir Thomas Gerard (1st term)
• 1554 Sir Marmaduke Tunstall
• 1555 Sir John Atherton
• 1556 Sir Thomas Langton
• 1557 Sir Edmund Trafford
• 1558 Sir Thomas Gerard (2nd term)
• 1559 John Talbot
• 1560 Sir Robert Worsley
• 1561 Sir John Atherton
• 1562 Sir John Southworth
• 1563 Sir Thomas Hesketh

• 1564 Thomas Hoghton
• 1565 Sir Edmund Trafford
• 1566 Sir Richard Molyneux
• 1567 Sir Thomas Langton
• 1568 Edward Holland
• 1569 John Preston
• 1570 Thomas Boteler
• 1571 Edmund Trafford
• 1572 John Byron
  Sir John Byron Jr
  Sir John Byron Junior was an Elizabethan English knight.He was the son of Sir John Byron Sr and lived at Clayton, Manchester, and later Royton, both then in Lancashire and later still at Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire....
  
   of Royton
  Royton
  Royton is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies by the source of the River Irk, on undulating land at the foothills of the Pennines, north-northwest of Oldham, south-southeast of Rochdale and northeast of the city of Manchester.Historically a...
  
  .
• 1573 Richard Holland
• 1574 William Booth
• 1575 Francis Holt
• 1576 Richard Bold
• 1577 Robert Dalton
• 1578 John Fleetwood
• 1579 Ralph Assheton
• 1580 Sir Edmund Trafford
• 1581 Sir John Byron
• 1582 Richard Holland
• 1583 John Atherton
• 1584 Sir Edmund Trafford
• 1585 Thomas Preston
• 1586 Richard Assheton
• 1587 John Fleetwood
• 1588 Thomas Talbot
• 1589 Sir Richard Molyneux
  Sir Richard Molyneux
  Sir Richard Molyneux, 1st Baronet was a Member of Parliament for Lancashire and Liverpool and Mayor of Liverpool.Molyneux was the son of William Molyneux and his wife Bridget Caryll. His grandfather, Sir Richard Molyneux was MP for Liverpoole from 1562 to 1571. He was educated at University...
  
  
• 1590 Richard Bold
• 1591 James Assheton
• 1592 Edward Fitton (the younger)
  Edward Fitton (the younger)
  Sir Edward Fitton the younger , was an Englishman who helped in the Elizabethan plantation of Ireland.-Biography:Fitton was the son and heir of Sir Edward Fitton of Gawsworth, Cheshire...
  
  
• 1593 Richard Assheton
• 1594 Ralph Assheton
• 1595 Thomas Talbot
• 1596 Richard Holland
• 1597 Sir Richard Molyneux
  Sir Richard Molyneux
  Sir Richard Molyneux, 1st Baronet was a Member of Parliament for Lancashire and Liverpool and Mayor of Liverpool.Molyneux was the son of William Molyneux and his wife Bridget Caryll. His grandfather, Sir Richard Molyneux was MP for Liverpoole from 1562 to 1571. He was educated at University...
  
  
• 1598 Richard Assheton
• 1599 Sir Richard Hoghton
• 1600 Robert Hesketh
• 1601 Cuthbert Halsall
• 1602 Sir Edmund Trafford
• 1603 John Ireland

House of Stuart

• 1604 Sir Nicholas Mosley
• 1605 Ralph Barton
• 1606 Edmund Fleetwood
• 1607 Sir Richard Assheton
• 1608 Robert Hesketh
• 1609 Sir Edmund Trafford
• 1610 Roger Nowell
• 1611 611 John Fleming
• 1612 Sir Cuthbert Halsall
• 1613 Robert Bindlosse
• 1614 Richard Shireburne
• 1615 Edward Stanley
• 1616 Rowland Mosley
• 1617 Sir Edmund Trafford
• 1618 Richard Shuttleworth
• 1619 John Holt of Stubley
• 1620 Leonard Ashawe
• 1621 Edmund More
• 1622 Sir Gilbert Ireland
• 1623 Sir George Booth
• 1624 Sir Ralph Assheton

• 1625 Edward Holland
• 1626 Roger Kirkbye
• 1627 Sir Edward Stanley
• 1628 Edmund Assheton
• 1629 Edward Rawsthorne
• 1630 Thomas Hesketh
• 1631 Richard Bold
• 1632 Nicholas Towneley
• 1633 Ralph Assheton
• 1634 Ralph Standish
• 1635 Sir Humphrey Chetham
  Humphrey Chetham
  Sir Humphrey Chetham was an English merchant, responsible for the creation of Chetham's Hospital and Chetham's Library, the oldest public library in the English-speaking world.- Life :...
  
  .
• 1636 William Farrington
  William Farrington (Royalist)
  William Farrington was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War....
  
  
• 1637 Richard Shuttleworth
  Richard Shuttleworth (MP)
  Richard Shuttleworth was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1640 and 1659. He supported the Parliamentarian side in the English Civil War....
  
   of Gawthorpe
• 1638 Roger Kirkby
  Roger Kirkby (Royalist)
  Roger Kirkby was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1642. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War.Kirkby was the son of Roger Kirkby of Kirkby Ireleth in Lonsdale...
  
  
• 1639 Sir Edward Stanley
• 1640 Robert Holt of Castleton
• 1641 Peter Egerton
• 1642 Sir John Girlington
• 1643 Sir Gilbert Hoghton
  Sir Gilbert Hoghton, 2nd Baronet
  Sir Gilbert Hoghton, 2nd Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1614 and 1640. He was a Royalist leader during the English Civil War....
  
  
• 1644-1647 John Bradshawon
• 1648 Gilbert Ireland
  Gilbert Ireland
  Sir Gilbert Ireland was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1654 and 1675.Ireland was the son of John Ireland of Hutt and Hale and his wife Elizabeth Hays, daughter of Sir Thomas Hays, alderman of London. He was a grandson of Sir Gilbert Ireland who...
  
  

Commonwealth

• 1649 John Hartley
• 1650 Edmund Hopwood
• 1651 Henry Wrigley
• 1652 Alexander Barlow
• 1653 John Parker
• 1654 Peter Bold

• 1635-1656 John Atherton
• 1656 John Starkie
• 1657 Hugh Cooper
• 1658 Sir Robert Bindlosse, 1st Baronet
• 1659 Sir Richard Hoghton

House of Stuart, restoration

• 1660 George Chetham
• 1661 Sir George Middleton
• 1663 John Girlington
• 1664 Thomas Preston
• 1666 William Spencer
• 1667 Sir John Ardene
• 1668 Thomas Greenhalgh
• 1670 Christopher Banastre of Bank Hall
  Bank Hall
  Bank Hall is a Jacobean mansion south of the village of Bretherton in Lancashire, England. It is a Grade II* Listed Building. The hall was built on the site of a previous building in 1608 during the reign of James I by the Banastre family who were Lords of the Manor. It was extended during the 18th...
  
  , Bretherton
• 1671 Sir Henry Sclater
• 1672 Sir Robert Bindlosse, 1st Baronet
• 1674 Sir Peter Brooke
• 1675-1677 Alexander Butterworth of Belfield
  Belfield, Greater Manchester
  Belfield is a locality within Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies at the confluence of the River Beal and River Roch, east-northeast of Rochdale's town centre...
  
  , Butterworth
  Butterworth (ancient township)
  Butterworth was a township occupying the southeastern part of the parish of Rochdale, in the hundred of Salford, Lancashire, England. It encompassed of land by the South Pennines which spanned the settlements of Belfield, Bleaked-gate-cum-Roughbank, Butterworth Hall, Clegg, Firgrove, Haughs,...
  
  .
• 1677-1679 Alexander Rigby
• 1679 Sir Roger Bradshaigh, 1st Baronet
  Sir Roger Bradshaigh, 1st Baronet
  Sir Roger Bradshaigh, 1st Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1679....
  
  
• 1680 William Johnson
• 1681 Lawrence Rawstane
• 1682-1684 Thomas Legh
• 1684 Peter Shakerley
• 1686-1688 William Spencer

• 1689 John Birch
• 1690 Peter Bold
• 1691 Alexander Rigby
• 1692 Francis Lindley
• 1693 Thomas Rigby
• 1694 Thomas Ashurst
• 1695 Richard Spencer
• 1696 Thomas Norreys
• 1697 Roger Mainwaring
• 1698 William West
• 1699 Robert Dukinfield
• 1700 Thomas Rigby
• 1701 William Hulme
• 1702 Roger Nowell
• 1703 Peter Egerton
• 1704 George Birch then Thomas Birch
• 1705 Richard Spencer
• 1706 Christopher Dauntesey

House of Stuart, restoration

• 1707 Edmund Cole
• 1708 Myles Sandys
• 1709 Roger Kirkby
  Roger Kirkby
  Colonel Roger Kirkby was an English soldier and politician, of Kirkby Ireleth in Lancashire, the eldest son of Richard Kirkby and his first wife Elizabeth Murray....
  
   (died Feb, 1709) then Alexander Hesketh
• 1710 Robert Parker

• 1711 Sir Thomas Standish
• 1712 William Rawstorne
• 1713 Richard Valentine
• 1714 William Farington

House of Hanover

• 1715 Jonathan Blackburne
• 1716 Thomas Crispe
• 1717 Samuel Crooke
• 1718 Richard Norris
• 1719 Thomas Stanley
• 1720 Robert Mawdesley
• 1721 Benjamin Hoghton
• 1722 Benjamin Gregge
• 1723 Sir Edward Stanley
  Edward Stanley, 11th Earl of Derby
  Edward Stanley, 11th Earl of Derby , known as Sir Edward Stanley, 5th Baronet, from 1714 to 1736, was a British peer and politician....
  
  
• 1724 William Tatham
• 1725 Miles Sandy
• 1726 Edmund Hopwood
• 1727 Daniel Wilson
  Daniel Wilson (MP)
  Daniel Wilson of Dallam Tower, Westmorland was a member of parliament for Westmorland constituency from 1708 to 1722 and 1728–1741, and also served as High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1727....
  
  
• 1728 Joseph Yates
• 1729 William Greenhaigh
• 1730 James Chetham
• 1731 William Leigh
• 1732 John Parker
• 1733 John Greaves
• 1734 William Bushell
• 1735 Arthur Hamilton
• 1736 Sir James Darcy Lever
• 1737 Thomas Norton
• 1738 Samuel Chetham
• 1739 Sir Ralph Assheton
• 1740 Roger Hesketh
• 1741 Robert Dukinfield
• 1742 Robert Bankes
• 1743 John Blackburne
• 1744 Robert Radclyffe
• 1745 Daniel Willis
• 1746 William Shawe
• 1747 Samuel Birch
• 1748 George Clarke
• 1749 Rigby Molyneux
• 1750 Charles Stanley
• 1751 James Fenton
• 1752 Richard Townley of Belfield Hall, Butterworth.
• 1753 John Bradshaw
• 1754 Thomas Hesketh
• 1755 Thomas Johnson
• 1756 James Barton
• 1757 James Bayley

• 1758 Robert Gibson
• 1759 Richard Whitehead
• 1760 Samuel Hilton
• 1761 Sir William Farington
• 1762 Thomas Braddyll
• 1763 Thomas Blackburn
• 1764 Sir William Horton, 1st Baronet
• 1765 John Walmesley
• 1766 Edward Gregge
• 1767 Alexander Butler
• 1768 Thomas Butterworth Bayley
  Thomas Butterworth Bayley
  Thomas Butterworth Bayley was an English magistrate, agriculturist and philanthropist.-Life:He was from an old Lancashire family, and his mother was one of the Dukinfields of Dukinfield, Cheshire. Shortly after completing his education at the University of Edinburgh, he was chosen a justice of the...
  
  
• 1769 Dorning Rasbotham
  Dorning Rasbotham
  Dorning Rasbotham was an English writer, antiquarian and artist.He was also High Sheriff of Lancashire .Dorning Rasbotham was the son of Peter and Hannah Rasbotham. He was married to Sarah Bagley c...
  
  
• 1770 Nicholas Ashton
• 1771 Sir Ashton Lever
• 1772 William Cunliffe Shawe
• 1773 Thomas Patten of Bank Hall, Warrington
• 1774 Geoffrey Hornby
• 1775 Sir Watts Horton, 2nd Baronet
• 1776 Lawrence Rawsthorne
• 1777 Samuel Clowes
• 1778 Wilson Gale Braddyll
• 1779 John Clayton
• 1780 John Atherton
• 1781 John Blackburne
• 1782 Sir Frank Standish
• 1783 James whalley, later Sir James Whalley-Smythe-Gardiner, 2nd Baronet
• 1784 William Bankes
• 1785 John Sparling
• 1786 Sir John Parker Mosley, 1st Baronet of Ancoats
• 1787 WilIiam Bamford
• 1788 Edward Falkner
• 1789 William Hulton
• 1790 Charles Gibson
• 1791 James Starky
• 1792 William Assheton
• 1793 Thomas Townley Parker
• 1794 Henry Philip Hoghton
• 1795 Robinson Shuttleworth
• 1796 Richard Gwillym
• 1797 Bold Fleetwood Hesketh
• 1798 John Entwistle
• 1799 Joseph Starkie
• 1800 James Ackers

House of Hanover

• 1801 Sir Thomas Dalrymple Hesketh
• 1802 Robert Gregge Hopwood
• 1803 Isaac Blackburne
• 1804 Thomas Lister Parker
• 1805 Meyrick Holme Bankes
• 1806 Le Gendre Piers Starkie
• 1807 Richard Crosse Legh
• 1808 Thomas Clayton
• 1809 Samuel Clowes
• 1810 William Hulton
  William Hulton
  William Hulton was an English landowner and magistrate.William Hulton was the son of William Hulton and Jane of Hulton Park, then in the historic county of Lancashire, England. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford...
  
  ; instigator of the Peterloo Massacre
  Peterloo Massacre
  The Peterloo Massacre occurred at St Peter's Field, Manchester, England, on 16 August 1819, when cavalry charged into a crowd of 60,000–80,000 that had gathered to demand the reform of parliamentary representation....
  
  
• 1811 Samuel Chetham Hilton
• 1812 Edward Greave
• 1813 William Farington
• 1814 Lawrence Rawstorne
• 1815 Le Gendre Starkie
• 1816 William Townley
• 1817 Robert Townley Parker (son of Thomas Townley, HS 1893)
• 1818 Joseph Feilden
• 1819 John Walmesley
• 1820 Robert Hesketh
• 1821 Thomas R. Gale Braddyll
• 1822 James Shuttleworth
• 1823 Thomas Green
• 1824 John Entwistle
• 1825 John Hargreaves, of Ormerod House
• 1826 James Penny Machell
• 1827 Charles Gibson
• 1828 Edmund Hornby
• 1829 Henry Bold Hoghton of Hoghton Tower
• 1830 Peter Hesketh
  Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood
  Sir Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, 1st Baronet, was an English landowner, developer and Member of Parliament, who founded the town of Fleetwood, in Lancashire, England. Born Peter Hesketh, he changed his name by Royal assent to Hesketh-Fleetwood, incorporating the name of his ancestors, and was later...
  
  , of Rossall Hall; landowner, developer
• 1831 Peregrine Edward Towneley, of Towneley
• 1832 George Richard Marton, of Capernwray Hall
• 1833 Sir John Gerard, 12th Baronet, of Garswood and New Hall
• 1834 Thomas Joseph Trafford
  Thomas de Trafford
  Sir Thomas Joseph de Trafford, 1st Baronet, DL was a member of a prominent family of English Roman Catholics. He served as commander of the Manchester and Salford Yeomanry at the time of the Peterloo Massacre...
  
  , of Trafford Park; (one of the first Roman Catholics appointed to public office after the repeal of the Test Acts)
• 1835 Thomas Clifton, of Lytham Hall
• 1836 Charles Standish, of Standish Hall
• 1837 Thomas Bright Crosse, of Shaw Hill
• 1838 William Blundell, of Crosby Hall
• 1839 Charles Scarisbrick, of Scarisbrick
  Scarisbrick
  Scarisbrick is a village and civil parish in West Lancashire, England. It is spread out along the A570 so there is no real village centre, though the junction with the A5147 is close to the geographic centre...
  
  
• 1840 Thomas Fitzherbert Brockholes
• 1841 Sir Thomas Bernard Birch
  Sir Thomas Birch, 2nd Baronet
  Sir Thomas Bernard Birch, 2nd Baronet DL was a British baronet and Whig politician.He was the only son of Sir Joseph Birch, 1st Baronet and his wife Elizabeth Mary, third daughter of Benjamin Heywood...
  
  
• 1842 Thomas Robert Wilson France
• 1843 William Garnett
  William Garnett (politician)
  William James Garnett was a British Conservative Party politician from Bleasdale in Lancashire. He sat in the House of Commons from 1857 to 1864....
  
  
• 1844 John Fowden Hindle
• 1845 Pudsey Dawson, of Hornby Castle
• 1846 William Standish Standish, of Duxbury Park
• 1847 William Gale, of Lightburne House, Ulverstone
• 1848 Sir Thomas George Hesketh
• 1849 John Smith Entwistle
• 1850 Clement Royds, of Mount-falinge
• 1851 Thomas Percival Heywood

• 1852 Thomas Weld-Blundell
• 1853 John Talbot Clifton
• 1854 Richard Fort
• 1855 John Pemberton Heywood
• 1856 Robert Needham Philips
  Robert Needham Philips
  Robert Needham Philips DL was an English merchant and manufacturer in the Lancashire textiles business, a Liberal Party politician, and the grandfather of the Whig historian G. M...
  
  
• 1857 Charles Towneley
• 1858 George Marton
  George Marton (1801–1867)
  George Marton was an English Conservative Party politician from Lancashire.At the 1837 general election, Marton was elected as Member of Parliament for Lancaster. He held the seat until he stood down from the House of Commons at the 1847 general election.In the 1820s, Marton's family built the...
  
  , of Capernwray Hall
• 1859 Sir Robert Tolver Gerard
• 1860 Henry Garnett
• 1861 Sir Humphrey de Trafford
  Sir Humphrey de Trafford, 2nd Baronet
  Sir Humphrey de Trafford, 2nd Baronet, was a prominent English Catholic. Born at Croston Hall near Chorley, Lancashire on 1 May 1808, he was the fourth child and the eldest son of Sir Thomas de Trafford.-Early life:...
  
  
• 1862 William A. F. Saunders
• 1863 Sir William Brown, Bt; politician and philanthropist
• 1864 Sir James Phillips Kay-Shuttleworth
• 1865 William Preston
• 1866 Sir Elkanah Armitage
  Elkanah Armitage
  Sir Elkanah Armitage DL was a British industrialist and Liberal politician.-Early life:He was born the third of six sons of Elkanah Armitage, a farmer and linen weaver from Failsworth, Lancashire...
  
  
• 1867 Thomas Dicconson
• 1868 Le Gendre Nicholas Starkie
• 1869 Benjamin Heywood Jones
• 1870 Henry F. Rigge
• 1871 Sir James Watts
• 1872 Thomas Wrigley
• 1873 Sir James Ramsden
• 1874 Richard Smethurst
• 1875 John Pearson
• 1876 Oliver Ormerod Walker
  Oliver Ormerod Walker
  Oliver Ormerod Walker was a British Conservative Party politician.He was the eldest son of Oliver Ormerod Walker and his second wife, Helen Elizabeth Garston, of Chesham Hall, near Bury, Lancashire. He was a magistrate, justice of the peace and held a commission in the 7th Royal Lancashire Militia...
  
  
• 1877 George Blucher Heneage Marton
  George Blucher Heneage Marton
  George Blucher Heneage Marton was an English Conservative politician.Marton was the son of George Marton of Capernwray Hall, Lancashire, and his wife Lucy Sarah Dallas daughter of Sir Robert Dallas, Chief Justice of Common Pleas. He was a major in the 3rd Battalion King's Own Royal Lancaster...
  
  
• 1878 Nathaniel Eckersley
  Nathaniel Eckersley
  Nathaniel Eckersley was an English mill-owner, banker and Conservative Party politician from Standish Hall, near Wigan in Lancashire...
  
  
• 1879 William Garnett
• 1880 Ralph John Aspinall
• 1881 William Foster
• 1882 George McCorquodale; industrialist
• 1883 Thomas Ashton
• 1884 Thomas Brooks, 1st Baron Crawshaw
  Thomas Brooks, 1st Baron Crawshaw
  Thomas Brooks, 1st Baron Crawshaw was a British peer.Brooks was the son of John Brooks, a quarry owner, of Crawshaw Hall, Lancashire. He served as High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1884...
  
  ; peer and landowner
• 1885 James Williamson
  James Williamson, 1st Baron Ashton
  James Williamson, 1st Baron Ashton was a British businessman and Liberal Party politician.Williamson was a successful businessman, whose family business in Lancaster produced oil cloth and linoleum which were exported around the world...
  
  ; politician
• 1886 Sir Andrew Barclay Walker
• 1887 Sir John Thursby
• 1888 Oliver Heywood
  Oliver Heywood
  Oliver Heywood was an English banker and philanthropist.Born in Manchester, the son of Benjamin Heywood, and educated at Eton College, Heywood joined the family business, Heywood's Bank in the 1840s....
  
  , of Claremont
• 1889 Clement Molyneux Royds
• 1890 Charles Henry Bird, of Cockerham
• 1891 George Theophilus Robert Preston replaced by Colonel William Foster
  William Henry Foster (Lancaster)
  Colonel William Henry Foster was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician, who owned the Black Dyke Mills in West Yorkshire and lived in Hornby Castle in Lancashire. He sat in the House of Commons from 1895 to 1900....
  
  
• 1892 John Knowles
• 1893 Sir Thomas Storey; farmer and landowner
• 1894 Joshua W. Radcliffe
• 1895 Frank Hardcastle
  Frank Hardcastle
  Frank Hardcastle was a British bleacher and businessman and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1892....
  
  
• 1896 Sir Peter Carlew Walker
• 1897 Samuel Radcliffe Platt
• 1898 William Balle Huntington
• 1899 William Charles Jones
• 1900 Frederick Baynes

House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

• 1901 Charles Hesketh Fleetwood-Hesketh; politician and barrister
• 1902 Arthur Knowles
• 1903 Henry Whitehead
• 1904 Herbert Lushington Storey
• 1905 Sir John 0. S. Thursby
• 1906 Edward Tootal Broadhurst
• 1907 Sir William H. Tate
• 1908 Sir Thomas Brocklebank

• 1909 Sir William Bower Forwood
  William Bower Forwood
  Sir William Bower Forwood was an English merchant, shipowner and politician. He was a wealthy businessman and a local politician in Liverpool who raised money for the building of the Liverpool Overhead Railway and Liverpool Cathedral.-Early life and business:Forwood was born in Edge Hill,...
  
  
• 1910 Reginald Arthur Tatton
• 1911 Sir George A. Pilkington
  George Augustus Pilkington
  Sir George Augustus Pilkington was an English doctor and Liberal politician.Pilkington was born at Upwell, Cambridgeshire, as George Augustus Coombe, the son of R. G. Coombe a surgeon. He was educated privately and trained for medicine at Guy's Hospital, London. He became MRCS Eng and LSA in 1870...
  
  
• 1912 John Stone
• 1913 John William Makant
• 1914 John Henry Maden
• 1915 Edward Graham Wood
• 1916 Percy John Hibbert

House of Windsor

• 1917 Sir William Hesketh Lever
  William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme
  William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme was an English industrialist, philanthropist, and politician....
  
  ; industrialist
• 1919 Col. George Hesketh.
• 1919 Sir Ralph Cockayne Assheton, Bt
• 1920 Edward Deakin
• 1921 George H. Bankes
• 1922 Myles Kennedy
• 1923 Sir Benjamin Sands Johnson of Abbot's Lea, Woolton
• 1924 Arthur Moore Lamb
• 1925 George Owen Sandys
• 1926 John Percy Taylor.
• 1927 Sir James Philip Reynolds, Bt
• 1928 Sir Arthur Meyrick Hollins
• 1929 Charles Sydney Jones
  Charles Sydney Jones
  Sir Sydney Jones was an English shipowner and Liberal Party politician.-Family and education:Jones was the son of Charles William Jones, a shipowner from Liverpool. He attended Charterhouse School and Magdalen College, Oxford. He never married. In religion Jones was a Unitarian, a member of the...
  
  
• 1930 Samuel Turner
• 1931 Sir Frederick Charles Bowring
• 1932 Austin Townsend Porritt
• 1933 Arthur Samuel Mitchell
• 1934 Sir Thomas Edward Higham
• 1934 Myles Noel Kenyon
  Myles Kenyon
  Myles Noel Kenyon was an English cricketer.He was born at Walshaw Hall, Bury, Lancashire, the son of James Kenyon, a prosperous woollen manufacturer and Elise Kenyon and educated at Eton School....
  
   of Bury
• 1935 Thomas Stone
• 1936 William James Garnett
• 1937 Charles Eastwood
• 1938 Colonel Alan Cecil Tod
• 1939 Edmund Barwick Clegg of Shore, Littleborough
• 1940 William James Garnett
• 1941 Francis Joseph Weld
• 1942 Sir William Fawell Ascroft
• 1943 Edwin Thompson, of Fulwood Park
• 1944 Colonel Sir Henry Darlington
• 1945 Sir Percy Macdonald
• 1947 Lt.-Col. Roger Fleetwood
  Roger Fleetwood-Hesketh
  Lieutenant-Colonel Roger Fleetwood Fleetwood-Hesketh, TD, DL, OBE , born Roger Bibby-Hesketh, was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament for Southport from 1952 to 1959.He was educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford, and called to bar in 1928 at...
  
  ; barrister and politician
• 1948
• 1949 Col. Wilfred Hugh Burton Rowley Kennedy
• 1950
• 1951 Sir Harold Parkinson, OBE of Burnley
• 1952 Col. Sir John Reynolds, Bt
• 1953 Maj. Mervyn Sandys
• 1954 Col. L Green
• 1955 Sir Cuthbert Clegg, industrialist, chairman of the Cotton Spinners' and Manufacturers' Association.
• 1956 Col. Vere Egerton Cotton
• 1957 Alan Storey
• 1958 Col. R G Parker
• 1959 Michael Charles Stanley; engineer

• 1960 Charles Peter Fleetwood Hesketh; author and illustrator
• 1961 Col. Walter M Musgrave-Hoyle
• 1962 Col. G G H Bolton
• 1963 Sir Frank Lord
• 1964 Brigadier Philip John Denton Toosey
• 1965 Lt. Col. Henry Cary Owtram
• 1966 Col. Frederick William Jones
• 1967 Col. Robert Ward Greenleigh
• 1968 Albert Wild
• 1969 Brigadier Sir Douglas Crawford
• 1970 Col. H J Darlington
• 1971 Simon Towneley
  Simon Towneley
  Sir Simon Peter Edmund Cosmo William Towneley, KCVO, KCSG was born with the surname Koch de Gooreynd, the elder son of a British father of Belgian stock, Alexander L.W...
  
  
• 1972 Lt. Col. Joshua Geoffrey Barber-Lomax
• 1973 Henry Lumby
• 1974 Col. Denis Houghton
• 1975 Maj. Basil Greenwood
• 1976 Geoffrey Bowring; farmer and landowner
• 1977 Maj. Stanley Ryde Riddiough
• 1978 Col. Michael Albert Astley Birtwistle
• 1979 Cyril Joseph Ainscough
• 1980 David Israel Goldstone
• 1981 Sidney Roy Fisher
• 1988 John Frederick Greenhough
• 1989 Charles Joseph Weld-Blundell
• 1990 Patrick William Townsend
• 1991 John Renshaw Holt
• 1992 Keith Gledhill
• 1993 Robert Rainey Craik
• 1994 Judith Josa Duckworth
• 1995 Ralph William Goodall
• 1996 Timothy Roy Henry Kimber
• 1997 Sir David Austin Trippier
  David Trippier
  Sir David Austin Trippier is a British Conservative politician and old boy of Bury Grammar School.Trippier was Member of Parliament for Rossendale from 1979 to 1983, and for Rossendale and Darwen from 1983 until he lost his seat in 1992 by 120 votes to Labour's Janet Anderson...
  
  
• 1998 Charles Anthony Beresford Brennan
• 1999 Lady Ann Mary Shuttleworth
• 2000 Rodney Newman Swarbrick
• 2001 Gloria Oates
• 2002 Thomas Geoffrey Bowring
• 2003 Bryan Mark Gray
• 2004 Gail Simpson Stanley
• 2005 James Christopher Armfield
  Jimmy Armfield
  James Christopher "Jimmy" Armfield, CBE, DL is an English former professional football player and manager who currently works as a football pundit for BBC Radio Five Live. He played the whole of his Football League career at Blackpool, usually at right back...
  
  
• 2006 Peter Robinson DL
  Deputy Lieutenant
  In the United Kingdom, a Deputy Lieutenant is one of several deputies to the Lord Lieutenant of a lieutenancy area; an English ceremonial county, Welsh preserved county, Scottish lieutenancy area, or Northern Irish county borough or county....
  
  
• 2007 Ruth Roderick Winterbottom
• 2008 Colonel Ewart Alan Jolley TD
  Territorial Decoration
  The Territorial Decoration was a medal of the United Kingdom awarded for long service in the Territorial Force and its successor, the Territorial Army...
  
  DL
• 2009 Caroline Susan Reynolds DL
• 2010 Dennis George Mendoros OBE DL
• 2011 Peter Mileham

External links

• HighSheriffs.com
• High Sheriffs of Lancashire 1129-1947 at holtancestry.com