• Sheriffs and high sheriffs of Cornwall: a chronological list: The right to choose high sheriffs each year is vested in the Duchy of Cornwall. The Privy...
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  • the Privy Council except for Cornwall, where the high sheriff is appointed by the Duke of Cornwall (currently the Prince of Wales) and for Merseyside, Greater...
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    of sixteen, his brother King Henry III gave him Cornwall as a birthday present, making him High Sheriff of Cornwall. Richard's revenues from Cornwall...
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    sword". He was High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1595 and was knighted in 1597; he was also Recorder of Liskeard and Steward of the borough of West Looe. He...
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  • Sir Richard Carew Pole, 13th Baronet (category High sheriffs of Cornwall)
    President of the Cornwall Gardens Trust. He was High Sheriff of Cornwall for 1978 and is a past Prime Warden of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers...
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    to the Holy Land. He was the regent of the Kingdom of England from 1286 to 1289 and the High Sheriff of Cornwall from 1289 to 1300. Edmund was born at...
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  • die without named heirs (bona vacantia) in Cornwall, and also appoints the High Sheriff of Cornwall; in most of England and Wales the Crown has these rights...
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    1993. He has been a member of the Cornwall County Council, was High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1980 and is a Deputy Lieutenant of the county. Sir John Pole...
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    Edward Bolitho (category High sheriffs of Cornwall)
    Simon Edward Bolitho, MC, High Sheriff of Cornwall (1956–57), and grandson of Sir Edward Bolitho, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall (1936–62). After Eton, he went...
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    1404, he carried out the duties of High Sheriff of Cornwall. During that time, Henry was also in command of part of the English forces. He led his own...
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