Sheriff of Canterbury
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. 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.
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List of holders
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- 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
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See also
References
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