High Sheriff of Avon

High Sheriff of Avon

The office of High Sheriff is over 1000 years old, with its establishment before the Norman Conquest. The Office of High Sheriff remained first in precedence in the counties until the reign of Edward VII when an Order in Council in 1908 gave the Lord-Lieutenant the prime office under the Crown as the Sovereign's personal representative. The High Sheriff remains the Sovereign's representative in the County for all matters relating to the Judiciary and the maintenance of law and order.

The county of Avon was formed in 1974 and abolished in 1996. Before and after this time the area covered was in a variety of other shrievalties, including Somerset, Bristol and Gloucestershire.

Officeholders

*1974: Hugh Charles Innes Rogers, of Beach House [LondonGazette|issue=46249|startpage=4006|date=28 March 1974|accessdate=2008-04-07]
*1975: John Foster Robinson CBE TD, of St. Georges Hill [LondonGazette|issue=46524|startpage=3843|date=21 March 1975|accessdate=2008-04-07]
*1976: Simon Melville Wills, of the Manor House, Walton-in-Gordano [LondonGazette|issue=46857|startpage=4337|date=23 March 1976|accessdate=2008-04-07]
*1977: Malcolm Allinson Anson, of Hill Court [LondonGazette|issue=47171|startpage=3435|date=11 March 1977|accessdate=2008-04-07]
*1978: Ewart Agnew Boddington, of Fanshawe Brook Farm [LondonGazette|issue=47497|startpage=3663|date=23 March 1978|accessdate=2008-04-07]
*1979: Thomas Lloyd Robinson TD, of Lechlade [LondonGazette|issue=47795|startpage=3547|date=16 March 1979|accessdate=2008-04-07]
*1980: Mary Ada Phoebe Towill, of Urchinwood Manor [LondonGazette|issue=48134|startpage=4411|date=21 March 1980|accessdate=2008-01-09]
*1981: Roderick Macdonald Davidson, of 13 Buckingham Vale, Clifton [LondonGazette|issue=48563|startpage=4215|date=24 March 1981|accessdate=2008-04-07]
*1982: Peter Douglas Smith, of Westbrook [LondonGazette|issue=48919|startpage=3495|date=12 March 1982|accessdate=2008-04-07]
*1983: Colonel Charles James Stewart OBE TD, of Thornton [LondonGazette|issue=49294|startpage=3829|date=18 March 1983|accessdate=2008-04-07]
*1984: Christopher Wilson Thomas CBE, of Bourne House [LondonGazette|issue=49677|startpage=3867|date=16 March 1984|accessdate=2008-04-07]
*1985:
*1986: Sir Alexander Walter Merrison FRS, of The Manor, Hinton Blewett [LondonGazette|issue=50472|supp=yes|startpage=4373|date=27 March 1986|accessdate=2008-04-07]
*1987: Robert Alexander Chermside, of The Old Rectory, Tormarton [LondonGazette|issue=50865|startpage=3691|date=19 March 1987|accessdate=2008-04-07]
*1988: Charles Richard Thurlow Laws, of Jerome House [LondonGazette|issue=51281|startpage=3545|date=24 March 1988|accessdate=2008-04-07]
*1989: Sir George White, 4th Baronet, of Pypers [LondonGazette|issue=51678|startpage=3357|date=17 March 1989|accessdate=2008-04-07]
*1990: Robert Foxcroft Robertson-Glasgow, of Hinton House [LondonGazette|issue=52081|startpage=3677|date=20 March 1990|accessdate=2008-04-07]
*1991: Andrew Milton Reid, of Parsonage Farm [LondonGazette|issue=52484|startpage=4709|date=25 March 1991|accessdate=2008-04-07]
*1992: Francis William Greenacre, of 3 Cecil Road, Clifton [LondonGazette|issue=52868|startpage=5026|date=20 March 1992|accessdate=2008-04-07]
*1993: Hylton Henry Bayntun-Coward [LondonGazette|issue=53247|startpage=4679|date=15 March 1993|accessdate=2008-04-07]
*1994: Christopher Marsden-Smedley, of Church Farm [LondonGazette|issue=53618|startpage=4243|date=18 March 1994|accessdate=2008-04-07]
*1995: James Napier Tidmarsh MBE, of 8 Princes Buildings, Clifton [LondonGazette|issue=53985|startpage=4273|date=20 March 1995|accessdate=2008-04-07]
*1996: George Robert Paget Ferguson, of 5 Windsor Terrace, Clifton [LondonGazette|issue=54345|startpage=3831|date=14 March 1996|accessdate=2008-04-07]

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