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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

and High Sheriff of Cornwall John Tremayne (1825–1901), MP for constituencies in both Cornwall and Devon, and High Sheriff of Cornwall John Tremayne Babington...

of the Cinque Ports) by his wife Joan Pavely, daughter and co-heiress of Sir John Pavely of Brook. He was High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1479 and High Sheriff...

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...