Sheriff of Newcastle upon Tyne
The office of Sheriff of Newcastle upon Tyne existed from 1400 until local government reorganisation in 1974, and was reintroduced in 1996 as a title held additionally by the Deputy Lord Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne.[1] The city has a sheriff because it was historically a county corporate.
In 1950 Violet Grantham became the first woman to hold the office (becoming the first female Lord Mayor two years later),[2] and in 2019 Councillor Habib Rahman became the first BAME person to hold the office.[3][4]
William Haswell Stephenson, who held the office in 1886, commissioned a bronze statue of Queen Victoria by Alfred Gilbert to celebrate 500 years of the shrievalty; it stands in the city centre and is Grade II* listed.[5][6][7]
Sheriffs 1400-1974
- 1399 William Redmarshall
- 1400 Robert Gabefore
- 1401 John Paulyn
- 1402 William Esyngton
- 1403 Robert Hebburn
- 1404 William Langton
- 1405 Roger Thornton
- 1406 William Redmarshall
- 1407 John Bywell
- 1408 William Middleton
- 1409 John Wall
- 1410 Robert Hebburn
- 1411 John Paulyn
- 1412 William Redmarshall
- 1413 John Wall
- 1414 William Middleton
- 1415 John Strother
- 1416 Richard Dalton
- 1417 John Rodes
- 1418 John Wall
- 1419 William Ellerby
- 1420 Robert Whelpyngton
- 1421 Robert Swynburn
- 1422 Richard Hall
- 1423 John Jay
- 1424 Laurence Acton
- 1425 John Pray
- 1426 Thomas Chirden
- 1427 John Clerk
- 1428 Simon Weltden
- 1429 John Jay
- 1430 Richard Hall
- 1431 John Clerk
- 1432 Edward Bertram
- 1433 Thomas Chirden
- 1434 Thomas Papedy
- 1435 Richard Bothe
- 1436 Thomas Wardell
- 1437 John Chamber
- 1438 William Lawes
- 1439 Thomas Castell
- 1440 William Harding
- 1441 John Musgrave
- 1442 Simon Weltden
- 1443 William Jay
- 1444 Thomas Hedlam
- 1445 Thomas Bee
- 1446 John Ward
- 1447 John Ovyngton
- 1448 Robert Baxter
- 1449 John Richardson
- 1450 Alan Byrd
- 1451 Alan Carr
- 1452 John Baxter
- 1453 John Penreth
- 1454 Nicholas Wetwang
- 1455 William Rothom
- 1456 Thomas Cuthbert
- 1457 John Nikson
- 1458 Robert Stevenson
- 1459 Henry Fouler
- 1460 Richard Stevenson
- 1461 Nicholas Haynyng
- 1462 Nicholas Wetwang
- 1463 Henry Fouler
- 1464 William Blaxton
- 1465 Nicholas Haynyng
- 1466 William Thompson
- 1467 Robert Chambers
- 1468 John Easington
- 1469 John Coke
- 1470 John Fisher
- 1471 Thomas Lockwood
- 1472 George Carr
- 1473 Thomas Swan
- 1474 Robert Harden
- 1475 William Hudson
- 1476 John Sample
- 1477 Peter Bewick
- 1478 John Hilton
- 1479 John Riddesdale
- 1480 William Scott
- 1481 William Bewley
- 1482 William Cunningham
- 1483 Robert Stokhall
- 1484 George Bird
- 1485 Thomas Harbred
- 1486 Robert Brigham
- 1487 John Penrith
- 1488 William Richardson
- 1489 William Chambers
- 1490 Thomas Morpath
- 1491 Robert Harding
- 1492 Bertram Younghusband
- 1493 Thomas Harbred
- 1494 Thomas Green
- 1495 Christopher Brigham
- 1496 William Hayning
- 1497 William Davell
- 1498 John Penrith
- 1499 John Snowe
- 1500 Thomas Riddell and William Selby
- 1501 William Selby
- 1502 Richard Hill
- 1503 Robert Baxter
- 1504 John Blaxton
- 1505 John Brandling
- 1506 Thomas Saunderson
- 1507 William Harbred
- 1508 Thomas Lyghton
- 1509 Edward Baxter
- 1510 Roger Dent
- 1511 John Passhelower
- 1512 Thomas Horsley
- 1513 William Harding
- 1514 Robert Watson
- 1515 Robert Russell
- 1516 Peter Chater
- 1517 Nicholas Richardson
- 1518 Thomas Baxter
- 1519 Gilbert Middleton
- 1520 Henry Anderson
- 1521 George Davell
- 1522 Robert Bartram
- 1523 James Lawson
- 1524 Robert Brandling
- 1525 John Watson
- 1526 Edward Swynborne
- 1527 William Carr
- 1528 Andrew Bewick
- 1529 Bartholomew Bee
- 1530 Roger Mitford
- 1531 John Saunderson
- 1532 Ralph Carr
- 1533 William Dent
- 1534 Peter Bewick
- 1535 Thomas Bewick
- 1536 John Ord
- 1537 John White
- 1538 George Selby
- 1539 John Hilton
- 1540 Robert Brigham
- 1541 Robert Lewyn
- 1542 Mark Shafto
- 1543 Bertram Anderson
- 1544 Cuthbert Ellison
- 1545 Oswald Chapman
- 1546 Edward Baxter
- 1547 Thomas Scott
- 1548 Cuthbert Blount
- 1549 Richard Hodgson
- 1550 Cuthbert Musgrave
- 1551 Christopher Mitford
- 1552 John Rawe
- 1553 Robert Ellison
- 1554 William Dickinson
- 1555 John Wilkinson
- 1556 William Dent
- 1557 William Carr
- 1558 Andrew Surtees
- 1559 Robert Anderson
- 1560 Francis Anderson
- 1561 Stephen Southern
- 1562 George Helye
- 1563 Thomas Liddel
- 1564 William Selby
- 1565 Anthony Swinburn
- 1566 Henry Brandling
- 1567 John Watson
- 1568 William Jennison
- 1569 George Simpson
- 1570 George Briggs
- 1571 Henry Anderson
- 1572 Robert Barker
- 1573 Mark Shafto
- 1574 Roger Rawe
- 1575 William Riddell
- 1576 Christopher Lewen
- 1577 Edward Lewen
- 1578 Henry Tennant
- 1579 James Carr
- 1580 Robert Atkinson
- 1581 Henry Chapman
- 1582 Henry Mitford
- 1583 Roger Nicholson
- 1584 Lionel Maddison
- 1585 George Whitfield
- 1586 Robert Dudley
- 1587 Robert Eden
- 1588 George Farnaby
- 1589 John Gibson
- 1590 Ralph Jenison
- 1591 William Greenwell
- 1592 Ralph Jenison and Thomas Liddell
- 1593 Henry Holford and William Jenison
- 1594 George Selby
- 1595 Francis Anderson
- 1596 Francis Anderson and Adrvan Hedworth
- 1597 William Huntly
- 1598 William Warmouth
- 1599 James Clavering
- 1600 Robert Anderson
- 1601 Thomas Riddel
- 1602 Francis Burrell
- 1603 Matthew Chapman
- 1604 Peter Riddel
- 1605 Henry Maddison
- 1606 Hugh Selby
- 1607 Robert Shafto
- 1608 William Hall
- 1609 Thomas Liddel the Younger
- 1610 Timothy Draper
- 1611 Alexander Davison
- 1612 Roger Anderson
- 1613 Henry Chapman
- 1614 John Cook
- 1615 Robert Bewick
- 1616 Michael Milburn
- 1617 William Bonner
- 1618 John Clavering
- 1619 Robert Anderson
- 1620 Nicholas Tempest
- 1621 Henry Liddel
- 1622 Robert Ledger and William Jackson
- 1623 Henry Bowes and William Jackson
- 1624 Lionel Maddison
- 1625 Ralph Cole
- 1626 Ralph Cock
- 1627 Henry Cock
- 1628 Ralph Grey
- 1629 Robert Shaftoe
- 1630 James Carr
- 1631 Henry Warmouth
- 1632 Francis Bowes
- 1633 Nicholas Cole
- 1634 John Marley
- 1635 Leonard Carr
- 1636 Henry Lawson
- 1637 Peter Maddison
- 1638 Mark Milbank
- 1639 John Emmerson
- 1640 Francis Liddell
- 1641 Sir Francis Anderson
- 1642 Henry Maddison
- 1643 Cuthbert Carr
- 1644 James Cole Robert Ellison
- 1645 Christopher Nicholson
- 1646 Henry Rawling
- 1647 Robert Young
- 1648 Ralph Jennison
- 1649 Samuel Rawlings
- 1650 John Lodge
- 1651 Peter Sanderson
- 1652 John Butler
- 1653 Robert Johnson
- 1654 John Rumney
- 1655 Henry Thompson
- 1656 George Blakiston
- 1657 George Thoresby
- 1658 John Watson
- 1659 James Briggs
- 1660 William Blackett
- 1661 Thomas Jennison
- 1662 Henry Brabant
- 1663 Robert Shaftoe
- 1664 Francis Liddel
- 1665 William Carr
- 1666 Timothy Davison
- 1667 Ralph Grey
- 1668 Robert Jennison
- 1669 John Rogers
- 1670 Richard Wright and Robert Roddam
- 1671 Matthew Jeffryson
- 1672 Robert Malabar
- 1673 George Morton
- 1674 Henry Jennison
- 1675 William Christian
- 1676 Michael Blackett
- 1677 Timothy Robson
- 1678 Nicholas Fenwick
- 1679 William Aubone
- 1680 Joseph Bonner
- 1681 John Squire
- 1682 Nicholas Ridley
- 1683 John Rumney
- 1684 William Proctor
- 1685 Ralph Elstob
- 1686 Thomas Paise
- 1687 William Ramsay (r) Samuel Gill
- 1688 Matthew Partis (r) Matthew White
- 1689 William Fetherstonhaugh
- 1690 Thomas Wasse
- 1691 Joseph Atkinson
- 1692 Benjamin Davison
- 1693 George Whinfield
- 1694 Robert Eden
- 1695 George Henderson
- 1696 William Ramsay
- 1697 George Cuthbertson
- 1698 Edward Harrison
- 1699 Jonathan Hargrave
- 1700 John Bowes
- 1701 William Boutflower
- 1702 John Bell
- 1703 Allan Bateman
- 1704 Matthew Matfen (d); Jonathan Rodham
- 1705 William Ellison
- 1706 Matthew Fetherstonhaugh
- 1707 Henry Reay
- 1708 Edward Johnson
- 1709 Henry Dalston
- 1710 Ralph Reed
- 1711 Francis Rudston
- 1712 Joseph Green
- 1713 Nicholas Fenwick
- 1714 Roger Matfen
- 1715 Nathaniel Clayton
- 1716 Francis Johnson
- 1717 John Kelly
- 1718 Thomas Stephenson
- 1719 Cuthbert Fenwicke
- 1720 Jacob Rutter
- 1721 Stephen Coulson
- 1722 Robert Sorsbie
- 1723 Richard Swinburn
- 1724 James Moncaster
- 1725 Thomas Wasse
- 1726 Joseph Liddell
- 1727 Robert Johnson
- 1728 John Stephenson
- 1729 Cuthbert Smith
- 1730 William Harbottle
- 1731 Chaloner Cooper
- 1732 William Fenwick
- 1733 John Simson
- 1734 Robert Ellison
- 1735 John Wilkinson
- 1736 Matthew Bell
- 1737 Jonathan Sorsbie
- 1738 William Greenwell
- 1739 Cuthbert Collingwood
- 1740 Ralph Sowerby
- 1741 John Ord
- 1742 William Peareth
- 1743 George Colpitts
- 1744 Aubonne Surtees
- 1745 Henry Partis
- 1746 Henry Eden
- 1747 William Watson
- 1748 John Vonholte
- 1749 Robert Heron
- 1750 William Clayton
- 1751 Matthew Scafe
- 1752 Francis Rudston
- 1753 John Harrison
- 1754 William Rowell
- 1755 William Harbottle
- 1756 John Erasmus Blackett
- 1757 John Scurfield
- 1758 Edward Mosley
- 1759 Matthew Stephenson
- 1760 John Baker
- 1761 Fletcher Partis
- 1762 Hugh Hornby
- 1763 Francis Forster
- 1764 Thomas Blackett
- 1765 Charles Atkinson
- 1766 John Hedley
- 1767 Richard Lacey
- 1768 William Coulson
- 1769 William Reed
- 1770 James Liddell
- 1771 Christopher Wilkinson
- 1772 James Rudman
- 1773 William Yielder
- 1774 Francis Johnson
- 1775 William Cramlington
- 1776 James Thomas Loraine
- 1777 Robert Clayton
- 1778 James Wilkinson
- 1779 Isaac Cookson
- 1780 William Surtees
- 1781 John Wallis (r) George Colpitts
- 1782 Richard Bell
- 1783 Christopher Soulsby
- 1784 Edward Dale
- 1785 Aubone Surtees the Younger
- 1786 Richard Chambers
- 1787 Joseph Forster
- 1788 Robert Newton Lynn
- 1789 Nathaniel Hornby
- 1790 Charles John Clavering
- 1791 Shaftoe John Hedley
- 1792 Matthew Pringle
- 1793 Henry Joseph Hounsom
- 1794 Archibald Reed
- 1795 Anthony Hood
- 1796 Nicholas Hall
- 1797 Thomas Smith
- 1798 William Wright
- 1799 Henry Cramlington
- 1800 Aubone Surtees the Younger
- 1801 Matthew Hedley (d); Isaac Cookson, younger
- 1802 Dixon Brown
- 1803 Thomas Cookson
- 1804 Benjamin Sorsbie
- 1805 Nathaniel John Winch
- 1806 John Cookson
- 1807 Thomas Burdon
- 1808 Thomas Burdon (r) Benjamin Sorsbie (r) George Shadforth
- 1809 Job James Bulman
- 1810 William Smoult Temple
- 1811 Thomas Burdon, jnr.
- 1812 Thomas Anderson
- 1813 Thomas Smith, jnr.
- 1814 Richard Brewster
- 1815 Ralph Naters
- 1816 Thomas Loggan
- 1817 William Clayton
- 1818 Henry Clayton
- 1819 Nicholas Naters
- 1820 John Anderson
- 1821 Alfred Hall
- 1822 Edward Johnson
- 1823 Edward John Jackson
- 1824 George Shadforth
- 1825 John Lionel Hood
- 1826 Alfred Hall
- 1827 Edward Dale
- 1828 John Brandling
- 1829 Henry Reed
- 1830 William Smith
- 1831 William Aubone Surtees
- 1832 Henry Bell
- 1833 G.C. Atkinson
- 1834 J.M. Chapman
- 1835 Thomas Dunn
- 1836 Anthony Nichol
- 1837 John Carr
- 1838 William Brownsword Proctor
- 1839 Robert Boyd
- 1840 James Archbold
- 1841 John Thomas Carr
- 1842 Joseph Hawks
- 1843 William Cookson
- 1844 John Fetherstone Ayton
- 1845 Matthew Robert Bigge
- 1846 Joseph Crawhall
- 1847 James Dent Weatherley
- 1848 Nathaniel Grace Lambert
- 1849 Ralph Dodds
- 1850 Mark Lambert Jobling
- 1851 Isaac Lowthian Bell
- 1852 Henry Ingledew
- 1853 John Gibson
- 1854 Edward Nathaniel Grace
- 1855 Anthony Nichol
- 1856 Joseph Armstrong
- 1857 John Ormston
- 1858 George Robinson
- 1859 William Hawthorn
- 1860 Thomas Hedley
- 1861 Benjamin Plummer
- 1862 Henry Parker
- 1863 William Hunter
- 1864 William Lockey Harie
- 1865 Henry Angus
- 1866 Richard Cail
- 1867 John Mawson (d)
- 1868 George William Hodge
- 1869 Thomas Leslie Gregson
- 1870 William Daggett
- 1871 John Brunton Falconar
- 1872 William Stephen Daglish
- 1873 Charles Henry Young
- 1874 John Oliver Scott
- 1875 Thomas Forster
- 1876 William Stewart
- 1877 Henry William Newton
- 1878 John Gibson Youll
- 1879 William Davies Stephen
- 1880 Thomas Richardson
- 1881 Thomas George Gibson
- 1882 Henry Clapham (d)
- 1883 Thomas Nelson
- 1884 Thomas Gray
- 1885 Thomas Bell
- 1886 William Haswell Stephenson
- 1887 Joseph Baxter Ellis
- 1888 William Sutton
- 1889 Edward Culley
- 1890 Stephen Quin
- 1891 Benjamin John Sutherland
- 1892 Riley Lord
- 1893 John Goolden
- 1894 Thomas Barkas Sanderson
- 1895 George Harkus
- 1896 John Beattie
- 1897 John Frederick Weidner
- 1898 Andrew Peter Anderson
- 1899 John James Forster
- 1900 James John Gillespie
- 1901 William John Sanderson
- 1902 John Matthew Oubridge
- 1903 William Cowell
- 1904 Arthur Scott
- 1905 Johnstone Wallace
- 1906 John Fitzgerald
- 1907 Walter Lee
- 1908 Thomas William Rowe
- 1909 William Robert Armstrong
- 1910 Richard Henry Millican
- 1911 Charles Thomas Stableforth
- 1912 Gabriel Theodore de Loriol
- 1913 Herbert Shaw
- 1914 Robert Pettillo Dawson
- 1915 William Bramble
- 1916 Arthur Munro Sutherland
- 1917 Stephen Easten
- 1918 John Graham Cole
- 1919 Richard Mayne
- 1920 Anthony Oates
- 1921 James Lunn
- 1922 David Adams
- 1923 Arthur William Lambert
- 1924 John Grantham
- 1925 Robert Jackson Thompson
- 1926 Robert Stanley Dalgleish
- 1927 Joseph Stephenson
- 1928 William Adams Allan
- 1929 John George Nixon jnr.
- 1930 Joseph William Leech
- 1931 John Leadbitter
- 1932 John William Telford
- 1933 William Locke
- 1934 Gilbert Oliver
- 1935 William Robert Wallace
- 1936 William Taylor (d) Adamson Dawson Russell
- 1937 John Edward Scanlan
- 1938 George Dixon
- 1939 Richard Jordon Richardson (d) Walter Thompson
- 1940 Thomas Clements
- 1941 Richard Embleton
- 1942 James Alexander Clydesdale
- 1944 Ernest George King
- 1945 James Pearson
- 1946 Thomas McCutcheon
- 1947 Thomas Tully
- 1948 Thomas Tully
- 1949 Norman Hackworth Chapman
- 1950 Violet Hardisty Grantham
- 1951 Robert Mould-Graham
- 1952 William Temple
- 1953 Arthur Howell
- 1954 Henry Waller
- 1955 Dorothy Ann Fitzpatrick
- 1956 John William Telford
- 1957 Ethel Beatrice Temple
- 1958 Robert Skinner Gray
- 1959 Gladys Robson
- 1960 George Jacobson
- 1961 Henry Simm
- 1962 Catherine Campbell Scott
- 1963 Jonathan Farries Burton
- 1964 Henry Russell
- 1965 Joseph Christopher Dixon McKenzie
- 1966 Mary Shaw
- 1967 Peter Henry Renwick (d) Isabella McCambridge (d) Robert Skinner Gray
- 1968 Horace John Milton Leigh Criddle
- 1969 Amelia Louisa Storey
- 1970 Watson Oliver
- 1971 Joseph William Norman Petty
- 1972 Thomas Allen Waters
- 1973 Cyril Lipman
Sheriffs 1996-present
- 1996 Mary Isabel Nixon
- 1997 David Serge Slesenger
- 1998 John Cunningham
- 1999 Peter John Stuart Thomson
- 2000 Mary Jane Carr
- 2001 John Marshall
- 2002 Margaret Richardson Carter
- 2003 Geoge William Douglas
- 2004 David Serge Slesenger
- 2005 Diane Margaret Packham
- 2006 Peter John Arnold
- 2007 David Leslie Wood
- 2008 Michael Cookson
- 2009 Brenda Hindmarsh
- 2010 Geoff O'Brien
- 2011 Jackie Slesenger
- 2012 Margaret Wood
- 2013 George Pattison
- 2014 Ian Graham
- 2015 Hazel Stephenson
- 2016 Linda Wright
- 2017 David Down
- 2018 David Cook
- 2019 & 2020 Habib Rahman
- 2021 Anita Lower [8] (d) Karen Robinson
- 2022 Veronica Dunn
- 2023 Maureen Lowson
References
- ^ "Newcastle upon Tyne". Shrievalties. National Association of City & Town Sheriffs of England & Wales. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
- ^ "Violet Grantham First Woman Lord Mayor Newcastle Editorial Stock Photo - Stock Image | Shutterstock". Shutterstock Editorial. 19 May 1952. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
- ^ Holland, Daniel (23 May 2019). "Historic appointment as Newcastle names new Lord Mayor and Sheriff". The Chronicle. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
- ^ "Lord Mayor of Newcastle". www.newcastle.gov.uk. Newcastle City Council. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
- ^ Historic England. "Statue of Queen Victoria (1024771)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
- ^ ""Queen Victoria (Newcastle)" by Sir Alfred Gilbert". www.victorianweb.org. The Victorian Web. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
- ^ Morton, David (24 July 2014). "Remember When: Queen Victoria's statue in Newcastle - then and now". The Chronicle. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
- ^ "Farewell CLLR Anita Lower | Newcastle City Council".
External links
- "Mayors and Sheriffs 1216 to date" (PDF). Newcastle City Council. Retrieved 2 November 2019.