{{Short description|British government office}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}} The office of '''High Sheriff of Somerset''' is an ancient [[shrievalty]] which has been in existence since the 11th century.<ref name="somsher">{{cite web|title=The High Sheriff of Somerset|url=https://highsheriffsomerset.org.uk/}}</ref> Originally known as the "Sheriff of Somerset", the role was retitled on 1 April 1974, under the provisions of the [[Local Government Act 1972]].<ref>"Sheriffs appointed for a county or Greater London shall be known as high sheriffs, and any reference in any enactment or instrument to a sheriff shall be construed accordingly in relation to sheriffs for a county or Greater London." ({{cite web|url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1972/70/section/219Local |title=Government Act 1972: Section 219}})</ref>
The position of sheriff was once a powerful one, the holders being responsible for collecting taxes and enforcing law and order in [[Somerset]], a [[Counties of England|county]] in [[South West England]]. In modern times the sheriff has become a ceremonial officer of the Crown, attending or presiding over many public events. Until 1567 the Sheriff of Somerset was also [[Sheriff of Dorset]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Somerset County News|url=http://www.highsheriffs.com/Somerset/SomersetNews.htm|publisher=High Sheriffs Association|access-date=5 June 2011}}</ref>
In England, Wales, and Northern Ireland the high sheriff is theoretically the sovereign's judicial representative in the county, while the [[lord-lieutenant]] is the sovereign's personal representative.<ref>{{cite web|title=High Sheriff and Under-Sheriff|url=http://www.debretts.com/forms-of-address/professions/local-government/high-sheriff.aspx|publisher=Debrett's|access-date=12 June 2011}}</ref> Their jurisdictions, the "shrieval counties", are no longer co-terminous with administrative areas, representing a mix between the [[Counties of the United Kingdom|ancient counties]] and more recent local authority areas. The post is unpaid, except for a small court attendance allowance, and the general expenses of the office are borne personally by the holder.<ref>[http://www.privy-council.org.uk/output/page29.asp Privy Council public information website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050826020226/http://www.privy-council.org.uk/output/page29.asp |date=26 August 2005 }}</ref> Eligibility for nomination and appointment of high sheriffs is controlled by the [[Sheriffs Act 1887]].
The current high sheriff is Peter Dixon.
==Sheriffs of Somerset 11th century== *{{circa|1061}} Godwine<ref name="dunning">{{cite book |last=Dunning |first=Robert |title=A History of Somerset |year=1983 |publisher=Phillimore & Co |location=Chichester |isbn=0-85033-461-6 |pages=109–117}}</ref> *1066-1068 [[Tovid]] or [[Tofig]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1083-1086 [[William de Moyon]]<ref name="dunning"/>
==Sheriffs of Somerset and Dorset==<!--[[Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset]] redirects here-->
===11th and 12th century=== {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| *{{circa|1091}} Aiulph the Chamberlain<ref name="dunning"/> *1123-1130 Warin<ref name="dunning"/> *1155 [[Richard de Monte Alto]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1155 [[Richard de Raddona]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1157 Walter de Lisoria<ref name="dunning"/> *1162 Robert de Beauchamp<ref name="dunning"/> *1163 [[Gerbert de Parcy]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1167 [[Robert Pucherel]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1169 [[Alfred of Lincoln]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1175 Robert de Beauchamp<ref name="dunning"/> *1182 [[William de Bendeng]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1184 [[Robert Fitzpain]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1188 [[Hugh Bardulf]]<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Round|first1= J. H.|last2= Turner|first2= Ralph V. |editor-first1= Ralph V.|editor-last1= Turner|title=Bardolf, Hugh (d. 1203)|format=fee required | encyclopedia =Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004 |doi= 10.1093/ref:odnb/1359|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1359 |access-date=16 May 2010|url-access=subscription}}</ref> *1189: [[John of England|John, Count of Mortain]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1194: [[William of Salisbury, 2nd Earl of Salisbury|William, Earl of Salisbury]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1197: Peter de Scudamore<ref name="dunning"/> *1199: Robert Belet<ref name="dunning"/> }}
===13th century=== {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| *1200: [[Hubert de Burgh]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1204: [[William de Montacute]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1204: [[Osbert de Stoke]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1207: [[William Brewer (justice)|William Brewer]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1209: [[William Malet (Magna Carta)|William Malet]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1212: [[Richard Marsh (bishop)|Richard Marsh]] *1214: [[William de Harcourt]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1215: [[Ralph de Bray]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1216: [[William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury]] *1218: [[Peter de Maulay]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1221: [[Roger de la Forde]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1223: [[John Russell, knight|John Russell]] *1223: [[Jocelin of Wells]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1226: [[William FitzHenry]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1228: [[Thomas de Cirencester]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1232: [[Peter de Rivaux]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1234: Thomas de Cirencester<ref name="dunning"/> *1237: [[Richard de Langford]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1238: Herbert FitzMetthew<ref name="dunning"/> *1239: Jordan Oliver<ref name="dunning"/> *1240: [[Hugh de Vivonia]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1242: Joel de Valletort<ref name="dunning"/> *1249: Godfrey de Scudamore<ref name="dunning"/> *1249: Bartholomew Petch<ref name="dunning"/> *1250: Henry de Erleigh<ref name="dunning"/> *1251: Elias de Rabayn<ref name="dunning"/> *1254: John de Aller<ref name="dunning"/> *1254: Stephen de Ashton<ref name="dunning"/> *1257: Walter de Burges<ref name="dunning"/> *1258: William Everard<ref name="dunning"/> *1259: Philip de Cerne<ref name="dunning"/> *1261: Philip Basset<ref name="dunning"/> *1263: [[Henry of Almain]], son of [[Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1264: William de Staunton<ref name="dunning"/> *1265: Ralph Russell<ref name="dunning"/> *1266: Philip Basset<ref name="dunning"/> *1267: Andrew Wake<ref name="dunning"/> *1269: Thomas de St Vigor<ref name="dunning"/> *1273: John de St Valery<ref name="dunning"/> *1274: Richard de Coleshill<ref name="dunning"/> *1278: John de Cormailles<ref name="dunning"/> *1283: Sir John de St Loe (de Sancto Laudo)<ref name="dunning"/> *1285: [[Eleanor of Castile|Queen Eleanor]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1289: Richard de Burghunte<ref name="dunning"/> *1291: Walter de Luveny<ref name="dunning"/> *1293: Walter de Gloucester<ref name="dunning"/><ref>Walter de Gloucester d.1310, of [[Alveston]]. Athenaeum, 3 October 1885, Review of MacLean, Sir John, Historical and Genealogical Memoir of the Family of poyntz, Exeter, 1885, reprinted in [https://archive.org/stream/gloucestershiren03londuoft/gloucestershiren03londuoft_djvu.txt Gloucestershire Notes & Queries, Vol.3, London, 1887], No.1246, p.295, The Manor of Alveston </ref> *1298: Nicholas de Cheyney<ref name="dunning"/> *1299: John Gerberge<ref name="dunning"/> (or John de Gerebert)<ref name="fox">{{cite web|title=Gerbestone Manor Wellington Somerset|url=http://foxlinks.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Gerbestone-ManorS.pdf|publisher=Fox Links|access-date=27 August 2017}}</ref> }}
===14th century=== {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| *1301: John de la Lee<ref name="dunning"/> *1302: John Gerberge<ref name="dunning"/> (or John de Gerebert)<ref name="fox"/> *1304: Matthew Furneaux<ref name="dunning"/> *1305: John de Montacute<ref name="dunning"/> *1306: Nicholas de Longlonde<ref name="dunning"/> *1307: Nicholas Cheyney<ref name="dunning"/> *1308: Walter Scudamore<ref name="dunning"/> *1309: Richard Chesilden<ref name="dunning"/> *1311: Walter Scudamore<ref name="dunning"/> *1313: John Chideock<ref name="dunning"/> *1314: John de Erleigh<ref name="dunning"/> *1315: Matthew Furneaux<ref name="dunning"/> *1316: [[John de Kingston|John de Kyngeston]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1318: Nicholas Cheyney<ref name="dunning"/> *1320: Thomas de Marlberge<ref name="dunning"/> *1325: John de Erleigh<ref name="dunning"/> *1326: Thomas de Marlberge<ref name="dunning"/> *1327: William de Whitefield<ref name="dunning"/> *1330: Hugh de Langlonde<ref name="dunning"/> *1332: John de Wraxall<ref name="dunning"/> *1333: Hildebrand of London<ref name="dunning"/> *1335: Walter Rodney<ref name="dunning"/> *1336: Hildebrand of London<ref name="dunning"/> *1338: Walter Rodney<ref name="dunning"/> *1340: John Durburgh<ref name="dunning"/> *1340: Walter Rodney<ref name="dunning"/> *1340: John Durburgh<ref name="dunning"/> *1341: Hugh Tyrel<ref name="dunning"/> *1343: Edward Stradling<ref name="dunning"/> *1343: Thomas Cary<ref name="dunning"/> *1353: John Palton<ref name="dunning"/> *1355: John St Loe<ref name="dunning"/> *1356: Richard Turbevill<ref name="dunning"/> *1358: Robert Martyn<ref name="dunning"/> *1359: John de Raleigh<ref name="dunning"/> *1360: Nicholas St Maur<ref name="dunning"/> *1360: Edmund de Clevedon<ref name="dunning"/> *1361: Theobald Gorges<ref name="dunning"/> *1362: John de la Hale<ref name="dunning"/> *1364: John de Langolnde<ref name="dunning"/> *1368: Edmund Cheyney<ref name="dunning"/> *1370: William Winterbourne<ref name="dunning"/> *1371: Roger Manningford<ref name="dunning"/> *1372: [[John Hamely]] of Wimborne St Giles<ref name="dunning"/> *1373: Hugh Durburgh<ref name="dunning"/> *1374: William Latimer<ref name="dunning"/> *1375: [[Edmund FitzHerbert|Sir Edmund FitzHerbert]] of Hinton Martell<ref name="dunning"/> *1376: Hugh Durburgh<ref name="dunning"/> *1377: [[John Delamare|Sir John Delamare]]<ref>S. E. Rigold, ''Nunney Castle, Somerset'' (HMSO, 1967), p. 4 ([https://books.google.com/books?id=dNlzAAAAIAAJ online])</ref> *1378: William Cogan<ref name="dunning"/> *1379: Sir [[John Burghersh]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1380: Theobald Gorges<ref name="dunning"/> *1380: William Latimer<ref name="dunning"/> *1381: Sir [[William Bonville|William de Bonvile]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1382: [[Edmund FitzHerbert|Sir Edmund FitzHerbert]] of Hinton Martell<ref name="dunning"/> *1383: [[John Stretch (MP)|Sir John Strech]] of [[Pinhoe]] and Hempston Arundel (Little Hempston)<ref name="dunning"/> *1384: Sir [[John Burghersh]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1385: John Copleston<ref name="dunning"/> *1386: [[Humphrey Stafford (died 1413)|Sir Humphrey Stafford]] of Hooke, Dorset<ref name="dunning"/> *1387: [[John Rodney (MP)|Sir John Rodney]] of Backwell and Rodney Stoke<ref name="dunning"/> *1388: [[John Moigne|Sir John Moigne]] of Owermoigne<ref name="dunning"/> *1389: Sir [[Thomas Brooke (died 1418)|Thomas Brooke]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1390: [[John Berkeley (died 1428)|Sir John Berkeley]] of [[Beverston Castle]]<ref name= IA>{{cite web | url= https://archive.org/stream/cu31924030494953/cu31924030494953_djvu.txt| title= The parliamentary history of the county of Gloucester| date= 1898| publisher= Internet Archive|access-date=27 March 2011}}</ref> *1391: [[Humphrey Stafford (died 1413)|Sir Humphrey Stafford]] of Hooke, Dorset<ref name="dunning"/> *1392: [[John Bathe (died 1409)|John Bache]] (or Bathe)<ref name="dunning"/> *1393: [[Theobald Wykeham]] of Tarrant Rushton<ref name="dunning"/> *1394: [[John Berkeley (died 1428)|Sir John Berkeley]] of [[Beverston Castle]]<ref name= IA/> *1395: [[John Moigne|Sir John Moigne]] of Owermoigne<ref name="dunning"/> *1396: [[John Rodney (MP)|Sir John Rodney]] of Backwell and Rodney Stoke<ref name="dunning"/> *1397: [[Thomas Arthur (MP)|Sir Thomas Arthur]] of Clapton-in-Gordano<ref name="dunning"/> *1397: Sir Thomas Dackombe<ref name="dunning"/> *1399: [[Thomas Arthur (MP)|Sir Thomas Arthur]] of Clapton-in-Gordano<ref name="dunning"/> }} oooo
===15th century=== {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| *1400: [[Richard Boyton]] of Currypool in Charlinch<ref name="dunning"/> *1401: John Luttrell<ref name="dunning"/> *1402: [[John Frome]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1403: [[William Wroth (MP)|William Wroth]] of Newton Plecy<ref name="dunning"/> *1404: [[Thomas Pomeroy|Sir Thomas Pomeroy]] of Combe Raleigh<ref name="dunning"/> *1405: [[Richard Boyton]] of Currypool in Charlinch<ref name="dunning"/> *1406: [[Walter Rodney (MP)|Sir Walter Rodney]] of Stoke Rodney<ref name="dunning"/> *1407: John Horsey<ref name="dunning"/> *1408: Matthew Coker<ref name="dunning"/> *1408: [[Robert Hill (c.1361-1423)]] of Spaxton<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/hill-robert-1361-1423|title = HILL, Robert (c.1361-1423), of Spaxton, Som|publisher = Hist of Parliament Online|access-date = 29 May 2013|archive-date = 1 July 2024|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240701202103/http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/hill-robert-1361-1423|url-status = dead}}</ref> *1409: [[Richard Boyton]] of Currypool in Charlinch<ref name="dunning"/> *1410: [[Humphrey Stafford (died 1413)|Sir Humphrey Stafford]] of Hooke, Dorset<ref name="dunning"/> *1411: John Horsey<ref name="dunning"/> *1412: [[Robert Hill (c.1361-1423)]] of Spaxton<ref name="dunning"/> *1413: [[Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford|Walter Hungerford]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1414: John Warre<ref name="dunning"/> *1415: Sir [[Humphrey Stafford (died 1442)|Humphrey Stafford]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1416: [[Richard Boyton]] of Currypool in Charlinch<ref name="dunning"/> *1417: Matthew Coker<ref name="dunning"/> *1418: John Florey<ref name="dunning"/> *1419: [[Robert Hill (c.1361-1423)]] of Spaxton<ref name="dunning"/> *1420: John Newburgh<ref name="dunning"/> *1422: [[Robert Hill (c.1361-1423)]] of Spaxton<ref name="dunning"/> *1422: Robert Coker<ref name="dunning"/> *1423: Richard Stafford<ref name="dunning"/> *1424: Sir Edward Stradling<ref>{{cite web | url =http://www.stradling.org.uk/docs/O_r_6.htm|title= Stradling family| publisher= Dictionary of Welsh Biography|access-date=27 March 2011}}</ref> *1426: [[Sir Giles Daubeney|Giles Daubeney]]<ref>{{cite web|title=DAUBENEY, Giles (1370/1-1403), of Kempston, Beds. and South Petherton, Som.|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/daubeney-giles-13701-1403|publisher=The History of Parliament Trust|access-date=28 December 2017}}</ref> *1426: William Finderne<ref name="dunning"/> *1427: [[William Carent]] of Toomer in Henstridge<ref name="dunning"/> *1428: [[John Stourton, 1st Baron Stourton|Sir John Stourton]], of Stourton, Co Wilts and of Stavordale Co, Somerset, High Sheriff of Somerset "In direct descent of the King, and entitled to quarter the Plantagenet Arms" *1430: John Warre<ref name="dunning"/> *1431: [[John Stourton (died 1438)|John Stourton]] of Preston Plucknett<ref name="dunning"/> *1432: John St Loe<ref name="dunning"/> *1433: John Seymour<ref name="dunning"/> *1434: [[William Carent]] of Toomer in Henstridge<ref name="dunning"/> *1435: Thomas Thame<ref name="dunning"/> *1436: John St Loe<ref name="dunning"/> *1437: William Stafford<ref name="dunning"/> *1438: Edward Hull<ref name="dunning"/> *1439: Walter Rodney<ref name="dunning"/> *1440: [[William Carent]] of Toomer in Henstridge<ref name="dunning"/> *1441: William Stafford<ref name="dunning"/> *1442: John St Loe<ref name="dunning"/> *1443: Edward Hull<ref name="dunning"/> *1444: Robert Cappes<ref name="dunning"/> *1445: John Norris<ref name="dunning"/> *1446: [[William Carent]] of Toomer in Henstridge<ref name="dunning"/> *1447: John Chideock<ref name="dunning"/> *1448: Edward Hull<ref name="dunning"/> *1449: John Austell<ref name="dunning"/> *1450: [[William Carent]] of Toomer in Henstridge<ref name="dunning"/> *1451: Thomas Thame<ref name="dunning"/> *1452: Richard Warre<ref name="dunning"/> *1453: Nicholas Latimer<ref name="dunning"/> *1454: John Cheyney<ref name="dunning"/> *1455: John Willoughby<ref name="dunning"/> *1456: Nicholas St Loe<ref name="dunning"/> of [[Over Langford Manor]] *1457: Robert Warre<ref name="dunning"/> *1458: John St Barbe<ref name="dunning"/> *1459: John Carent<ref name="dunning"/> *1460: Humphrey Stafford<ref name="dunning"/> *1461: Thomas Herbert<ref name="dunning"/> *1463: William Browning<ref name="dunning"/> *1464: Christopher Worsley<ref name="dunning"/> *1465: John Sydenham<ref name="dunning"/> *1466: George Darrell<ref name="dunning"/> *1467: Robert Stawell<ref name="dunning"/> *1468: Reginald Stourton<ref name="dunning"/> *1469: Christopher Worsley<ref name="dunning"/> *1470: Nicholas Latimer<ref name="dunning"/> *1471: John Cheverell<ref name="dunning"/> *1472: John Biconyll<ref name="dunning"/> *1473: Robert Palmer<ref name="dunning"/> *1474: [[Giles Daubeney, 1st Baron Daubeney|Giles Daubeney]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1475: William Collingbourne<ref name="dunning"/> *1476: Thomas Norton<ref name="dunning"/> *1477: William Berkley<ref name="dunning"/> *1478: William Say<ref name="dunning"/> *1479: Edward Hartgtill<ref name="dunning"/> *1480: [[Giles Daubeney, 1st Baron Daubeney|Giles Daubeney]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1481: Richard Morton<ref name="dunning"/> *1482: Nicholas Crowmer<ref name="dunning"/> *1483: Edward Redmayne<ref name="dunning"/> *1484: Thomas Fulford<ref name="dunning"/> *1485: [[Amias Paulet (d. 1538)|Amias Paulet]]<ref name="dunning"/><ref>{{cite book|last=Steed|first=Christopher|title=Let the Stones Talk: Glimpses of English History Through the People of the Moor|year=2011|publisher=AuthorHouse|isbn=978-1456776879|page=138|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ax0ed_OEzvwC&q=Amias+Paulet+Sheriff+Somerset&pg=PA138}}</ref> *1486: John Turbevill<ref name="dunning"/> *1487: James Daubeney<ref name="dunning"/> *1488: Hugh Luttrell<ref name="dunning"/> *1489: William Martin<ref name="dunning"/> *1490: Henry Burnell<ref name="dunning"/> *1491: Amias Paulet<ref name="dunning"/> *1492: Walter Enderby<ref name="dunning"/> *1493: Edmund Carew<ref name="dunning"/> *1494: Sampson Norton<ref name="dunning"/> *1495: Sir Edmund Gorges of [[Wraxall, Somerset]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1496: Roger Newburgh<ref name="dunning"/> *1497: [[Richard Pudsey (of Pinhoe)|Richard Pudsey]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1498: Sir [[Nicholas Wadham (MP)|Nicholas Wadham (died 1542)]] of [[Merryfield, Ilton|Merryfield]], Somerset and [[Edge, Branscombe|Edge]], Devon.<ref name="dunning"/> *1499: Amias Paulet<ref name="dunning"/> }}
===16th century=== {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| *1500: William Martin<ref name="dunning"/> *1501: John Trevelyan<ref name="dunning"/> *1502: Sir Edward Wadham of Pole Anthony, Tiverton and Tomarton, Gloucestershire.<ref name="dunning"/> *1503: Sir Henry Uvedale<ref name="dunning"/> *1504: John Horsey<ref name="dunning"/> *1505: John Sydenham<ref name="dunning"/> *1506: John Carew<ref name="dunning"/> *1507: John Williams<ref name="dunning"/> *1508: John Bevyn<ref name="dunning"/> *1509: Richard Weston<ref name="dunning"/> *1510: John Speke<ref name="dunning"/> *1511: Walter Rodney<ref name="dunning"/> *1512: [[Giles Strangways (died 1546)|Giles Strangeways]] of [[Melbury House]], Melbury Sampford.<ref name="dunning"/> *1513: William Compton<ref name="dunning"/> *1514: Edward Gorges<ref name="dunning"/> *1515: [[John Seymour (Tudor)|John Seymour]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sheptonbeauchamp.org.uk/doku.php?id=about:home |title=Village introduction |access-date=26 January 2008 |work=Shepton Beauchamp }}</ref> *1516: Thomas de la Lynd<ref name="dunning"/> *1517: Sir [[Giles Strangways (died 1546)|Giles Strangeways]] of [[Melbury House]], Melbury Sampford.<ref name="dunning"/> *1518: William Compton<ref name="dunning"/> *1519: [[John Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Bath]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Sir John Bourchier 2nd Earl of Bath|url=http://www.stepneyrobarts.co.uk/6726.htm|publisher=Stepney Roberts|access-date=17 March 2013}}</ref> *1520: William Wadham of Catherston, Dorset.<ref name="dunning"/> *1521: John Rogers<ref name="dunning"/> *1522: William Carent<ref name="dunning"/> *1523: Thomas Trenchard<ref name="dunning"/> *1524: Sir [[Giles Strangways (died 1546)|Giles Strangeways]] of [[Melbury House]], Melbury Sampford.<ref name="dunning"/> *1525: George Speke<ref name="dunning"/> *1526: [[John Seymour (Tudor)|John Seymour]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1527: [[John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Parry|first=John Docwra|title=History and description of Woburn and its abbey, etc|year=1831|page=67|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KfYGAAAAQAAJ&q=John+Russell+Sheriff+Somerset&pg=PA67}}</ref> *1528: Sir Andrew Luttrell<ref name="dunning"/> *1529: Edward Gorges<ref name="dunning"/> *1530: [[Thomas Arundell of Wardour Castle|Thomas Arundell]] of [[Wardour Castle]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.luminarium.org/encyclopedia/thomasarundell.htm|title= Sir Thomas Arundell (d. 1552)|publisher= Luminarium:Encyclopaedia Project|access-date=3 June 2011}}</ref> *1531: [[Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1532: [[Sir Thomas More]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1533: Sir [[Giles Strangways (died 1546)|Giles Strangeways]] of [[Melbury House]], Melbury Sampford.<ref name="dunning"/> *1534: [[Nicholas Wadham (MP)|Sir Nicholas Wadham]] of [[Edge, Branscombe]], Devon and [[Merryfield, Ilton]], Somerset.<ref name="dunning"/> *1535: Francis Dawtrey<ref name="dunning"/> *1536: [[Hugh Paulet]] of [[Hinton St George]]<ref name=hughpaulet>{{cite web|title=Sir Hugh Paulet|url=http://www.stepneyrobarts.co.uk/145328.htm|publisher=Stepney Robarts|access-date=17 March 2013}}</ref> *1537: [[John Horsey (died 1546)|John Horsey]] of Clifton Maybank, Dorset *1538: [[Henry Long (MP 1552-1553)|Henry Long]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Sir Henry Long|url=http://www.lynehamvillage.com/history/bygones/longfamily.html|publisher=Lyneham Village|access-date=17 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130205034356/http://www.lynehamvillage.com/history/bygones/longfamily.html|archive-date=5 February 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> *1539: [[Thomas Speke|Sir Thomas Speke]] of White Lackington<ref name="dunning"/> *1540: [[Thomas Arundell of Wardour Castle|Sir Thomas Arundell]] of [[Wardour Castle]].<ref name="dunning"/> *1541: Sir [[Giles Strangways (died 1546)|Giles Strangeways]] of [[Melbury House]], Melbury Sampford.<ref name="dunning"/> *1542: [[Hugh Paulet]] of [[Hinton St George]]<ref name=hughpaulet/> *1543: [[John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester|John Paulet]] (later [[Marquess of Winchester]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1544: [[John Horsey (died 1546)|John Horsey]] of Clifton Maybank, Dorset<ref name="dunning"/> *1545: Nicholas FitzJames<ref name="dunning"/> *1546: [[John Sydenham (MP for Somerset)|Sir John Sydenham]] of Brimpton<ref name="dunning"/> *1547: [[Hugh Paulet]] of [[Hinton St George]]<ref name=hughpaulet/> *1548: [[John Thynne|Sir John Thynne]] of Longleat<ref name="dunning"/> *1549: [[Thomas Speke|Sir Thomas Speke]] of White Lackington<ref name="dunning"/> *1550: George de la Lynd<ref name="dunning"/> *1551: [[John St Loe]] of [[Sutton Court]], Bishops Sutton<ref name="dunning"/> of [[Over Langford Manor]] and [[Church of St Saviour, Puxton]]. *1552: [[John Rogers (died 1565)|John Rogers]] of Bryanston<ref name="dunning"/> *1553: John Tregonwell<ref name="dunning"/> *1554: [[John Sydenham (MP for Somerset)|Sir John Sydenham]] of Brimpton, Sir George Sydenham, Thomas Luttrell<ref>{{cite web|title=The occupants of the ancient office of High Sheriff of Somerset|url=http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Documents/sheriffs_of_somerset.htm|publisher=Tudor Court|access-date=30 March 2011}}</ref> *1555: [[Henry Ashley (MP for Dorset)|Henry Ashley]] of Wimborne St Giles<ref name="dunning"/> *1556: Sir John Wadham (died 1578) of [[Merryfield, Ilton|Merryfield]], Somerset and [[Edge, Branscombe|Edge]], Devon.<ref name="dunning"/> *1557: [[Humphrey Colles]] of [[Corfe|Barton Grange]] and Nether Stowey<ref name="dunning"/> *1558: [[John Horsey (died 1564)|John Horsey]] of Clifton Maybank<ref name="dunning"/> *1559: [[Thomas Dyer (MP)|Thomas Dyer]] of Sharpham and Weston<ref name="dunning"/> *1560: James FitzJames<ref name="dunning"/> *1561: John Wyndham<ref name="dunning"/> Sir John Wadham;<ref>not Wyndham, according to Worthies of Dorsetshire; p.471</ref> *1562: [[George Speke (died 1584)|George Speke]] of White Lackington<ref name="dunning"/> *1563: John Horner<ref name="dunning"/> *1564: [[Henry Ashley (MP for Dorset)|Henry Ashley]] of Wimborne St Giles<ref name="dunning"/> *1565: Henry Uvedale<ref name="dunning"/> *1566: Thomas Morton<ref name="dunning"/> }}
==Sheriffs of Somerset==
===16th and 17th century=== {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| *1567: [[Maurice Berkeley (died 1581)|Sir Maurice Berkeley]] of Bruton<ref name="dunning"/> *1568: George Norton<ref name="dunning"/> *1569: Henry Portman<ref name="dunning"/> *1570: [[Thomas Luttrell (died 1571)|Thomas Luttrell]] of [[Dunster Castle]]<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/luttrell-thomas-1571|title= LUTTRELL, Thomas (d.1571), of Marshwood and Dunster Castle, Som.|publisher= History of Parliament Online|access-date = 27 May 2013}}</ref> (died Jan, 1571) *1570: John Sydenham<ref name="dunning"/> *1571: [[George Rogers (MP for Somerset)|George Rogers]] of Cannington<ref name="dunning"/> *1572: John Horner<ref name="dunning"/> *1573: John Sydenham<ref name="dunning"/> *1574: John Stawell<ref name="dunning"/> *1575: Christopher Kenn<ref name="dunning"/> *1576: [[Thomas Malett]] of Enmore and Currypool<ref name="dunning"/> *1577: George Sydenham<ref name="dunning"/> *1578: [[John Colles]] of [[Corfe|Barton Grange]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1579: John Brett<ref name="dunning"/> *1580: Maurice Rodney<ref name="dunning"/> *1581: Henry Newton<ref name="dunning"/> *1582: [[John Buller (MP for Weymouth and Melsombe Regis)|John Buller]] of Wood in Knowle St. Giles and Lillesdon<ref name="dunning"/> *1583: [[Arthur Hopton (died 1607)|Arthur Hopton]] of [[Witham Friary]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1584: Gabriel Hawley<ref name="dunning"/> (d.1603) of [[Buckland Priory]], Somerset<ref>'Durston: Manors', A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 6: Andersfield, Cannington, and North Petherton Hundreds (Bridgwater and neighbouring parishes) (1992), pp. 259-262.[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=18669&strquery=hawley]</ref> *1585: [[Nicholas Wadham (1531-1609)]]<ref name="dunning"/> of [[Merryfield, Ilton|Merryfield]], Somerset and [[Edge, Branscombe|Edge]], Devon. *1586: John Clifton<ref name="dunning"/> *1587: [[Henry Berkeley (MP for Somerset)|Henry Berkeley]] of Norwood Park, Stoke and Bruton<ref name="dunning"/> *1588: Edward St Barbe<ref name="dunning"/> *1589: [[Samuel Norton (alchemist)|Samuel Norton]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1590: [[Hugh Portman (MP for Somerset)|Hugh Portman]] of [[Orchard Portman]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1591: Sir John Harrington<ref name="dunning"/> *1592: George Speke<ref name="dunning"/> *1593: [[George Luttrell]] of [[Dunster Castle]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1594: Henry Walrond<ref name="dunning"/> *1595: John Faunceys<ref name="dunning"/> *1596: John Stawell<ref name="dunning"/> *1597: [[John Colles]] of [[Corfe|Barton Grange]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1598: John Jennings<ref name="dunning"/> *1599: George Rodney<ref name="dunning"/> *1600: [[Hugh Portman (MP for Somerset)|Sir Hugh Portman]] of [[Orchard Portman]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1601: John Malet<ref name="dunning"/> *1602: John May<ref>{{cite book |last=Reid |first= Robert Douglas |title=Some buildings of Mendip |year=1979 |publisher=The Mendip Society |isbn=0-905459-16-4 }}</ref> or Mayo<ref name="dunning"/> *1603: [[Edward Rogers (died 1627)|Edward Rogers]] of Cannington<ref name="dunning"/> *1604: John Wyndham<ref name="dunning"/> *1606: Thomas Horner<ref name="dunning"/> *1607: [[Edward Hext]] of Low Ham (Netherham)<ref name="dunning"/> *1608: Edward Gorges<ref name="dunning"/> *1609: [[George Luttrell]] of [[Dunster Castle]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1610: Francis Baber<ref name="dunning"/> *1611: [[John Rodney (died 1612)|Sir John Rodney]] of Pilton and Stoke Rodney<ref name="dunning"/> *1612: Robert Henley<ref name="dunning"/> *1613: Natahniel Still<ref name="dunning"/> *1614: [[John Horner (MP)|Sir John Horner]] of Mells<ref name="dunning"/> *1615: Bartholomew Michell<ref name="dunning"/> *1616: John Colles<ref name="dunning"/> *1616: [[John Poulett, 1st Baron Poulett|John Poulett]] of Hinton St George<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/poulett-john-1586-1649|title= POULETT (PAULET), John (1586-1649), of Hinton St. George, Som. and Clerkenwell, Mdx.|publisher= History of Parliament Online|access-date = 26 May 2013}}</ref> *1617: [[Robert Hopton (died 1638)|Robert Hopton]] of Ditcheat<ref name="dunning"/> *1618: Theodore Newton<ref name="dunning"/> *1619: John Trevelyan<ref name="dunning"/> *1620: Henry Henley<ref name="dunning"/> *1621: Marmaduke Jennings<ref name="dunning"/> *1622: [[Edward Popham (MP for Bridgwater)|Edward Popham]] of Huntworth<ref name="dunning"/> *1623: William Faunceys<ref name="dunning"/> *1624: Thomas Wyndham<ref name="dunning"/> *1625: [[Robert Phelips]]<ref name="dunning"/><ref>{{cite web | url = http://ingilbyhistory.ripleycastle.co.uk/ingilby_4/Phelips%20Sir%20Robert%20%281586-1638%29.pdf| title= Sir Robert Phelips| access-date=3 June 2011}}</ref> *1626: [[John Symes (MP for Somerset)|John Clark Symes]] of [[Poundisford Park]], Pitminster<ref name="dunning"/><ref>{{cite book|last=Nathan |first=Matthew|title=The Annals of West Coker|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1957|page=268|isbn=978-0-521-05792-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mxA9AAAAIAAJ&q=john+symes++sheriff+of+somerset&pg=PA268}}</ref> *1627: Sir John Latch of [[Over Langford Manor]]<ref name="dunning"/><ref>Collinsons, ''Somerset'', Vol. 1. p. xxxviii</ref><ref>I.V. Hall (1955) ''Transactions of Bristol and Gloucester Archaeological Society'' Vol 74, p. 192</ref> *1628: [[John Stawell|Sir John Stawell]] of Cothelstone<ref name="dunning"/><ref name="dnb">[[Dictionary of National Biography]]</ref> *1629: Thomas Thyne<ref name="dunning"/> *1630: Francis Dodington<ref name="dunning"/> *1631: [[Thomas Luttrell (1583–1644)|Thomas Luttrell]] of [[Dunster Castle]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1632: William Walrond<ref name="dunning"/> *1633: John Carew<ref name="dunning"/> *1634: Henry Hodges<ref name="dunning"/> *1635: [[John Malet (died 1644)|John Malet]] of [[Enmore Castle]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1636: William Bassett<ref name="dunning"/> *1637: William Portman<ref name="dunning"/> *1638: William Every<ref name="dunning"/> *1639: [[Thomas Wroth (politician, 17th century)|Thomas Wroth]] of [[Petherton Park]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1640: John Hippisley<ref name="dunning"/> *1641: Martin Sanford of [[Nynehead Court]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1642: [[Edmund Wyndham (MP for Minehead)|Edward Wyndham]] of Kentsford and Cathanger<ref name="dunning"/> *1642: Thomas Brydges<ref name="dunning"/> *1644: [[John Horner (MP)|Sir John Horner]] of [[Mells Manor]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1646: Richard Cole<ref name="dunning"/> *1648: John Preston<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=25229| title= House of Commons Journal| publisher= British History Online|access-date =10 April 2011}}</ref> *1648: John Buckland<ref name="dunning"/> *1649: Henry Bonner<ref name="dunning"/> *1650: Alexander Pym<ref name="dunning"/> *1651: Edward Ceely<ref name="dunning"/> *1652: George Luttrell<ref name="dunning"/> *1653: William Cole<ref name="dunning"/><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=24307| title= House of Commons Journal Volume 7-10| publisher= British History Online|access-date =27 May 2011}}</ref> *1654: [[Robert Hunt (MP)|Robert Hunt]] of Speckington, Yeovilton<ref name="dunning"/> *1656: William Hillyard<ref name="dunning"/> *1659: William Lacey<ref name="dunning"/> *1660: William Helyar<ref name="dunning"/> *1661: [[George Speke (politician, died 1689)|George Speke]] of [[Whitelackington]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1662: [[John Warre]] of [[Hestercombe House]], Kingston<ref name="dunning"/> *1663: George Newton<ref name="dunning"/> *1664: George Trevelyan<ref name="dunning"/> *12 November 1665: [[Sir Hugh Smith, 1st Baronet]],<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=1 |city=o |page=1|date=7 November 1665}}</ref> of [[Ashton Court]] *7 November 1666: George Stowell<ref name="dunning"/><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=102|page=2|date=5 November 1666}}</ref> *6 November 1667: [[George Horner (died 1677)|Sir George Horner]],<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=206|page=2|date=4 November 1667 |nolink=y}}</ref> of Cloford<ref name="dunning"/> *6 November 1668: Henry Rogers<ref name="dunning"/><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=311|page=2|date=9 November 1668 |nolink=y}}</ref> *11 November 1669: Roger Bourne<ref name="dunning"/><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=416|page=2|date=8 November 1669 |nolink=y}}</ref> *4 November 1670: Sir Thomas Gore<ref name="dunning"/><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=519|page=1|date=3 November 1670 |nolink=y}}</ref> *9 November 1671: [[William Strode III (of Barrington)|William Strode]]<ref name="dunning"/><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=624|page=2|date=6 November 1671 |nolink=y}}</ref> *11 November 1672: [[Francis Rolle|Sir Francis Rolle]],<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=728|page=2|date=7 November 1672 |nolink=y}}</ref> of Shapwick<ref name="dunning"/> *12 November 1673: John Carew of Crowcombe<ref name="dunning"/><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=833|page=2|date=10 November 1673 |nolink=y}}</ref> *5 November 1674: [[Sir Halswell Tynte, 1st Baronet]],<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=935|page=2|date=5 November 1674 |nolink=y}}</ref> of Halswell, Goathurst<ref name="dunning"/> *15 November 1675: John Prowse, of Axbridge<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=1042|page=2|date=15 November 1675 |nolink=y}}</ref><ref name="dunning"/> *10 November 1676: [[Ralph Stawell, 1st Baron Stawell|Ralph Stawell]],<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=1146|page=1|date=9 November 1676|nolink=y}}</ref> of Low Ham<ref name="dunning"/> *22 November 1676: Richard Landsdowne<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=1149| page=2|date=20 November 1676 |nolink=y}}</ref> *15 November 1677: Sir Gregory Heekmore of Buckland Baron<ref name="dunning"/><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=1251|page=2|date=12 November 1677|nolink=y}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=1252|page=1|date=15 November 1677|nolink=y}}</ref> *14 November 1678: John Carew, of Cumerton<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=1355|page=2|date=11 November 1678|nolink=y}}</ref><ref name="dunning"/> *13 November 1679: [[Sir William Wyndham, 1st Baronet]],<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=1460|page=1|date=13 November 1679|nolink=y}}</ref> of Orchard Wyndham, St. Decuman's<ref name="dunning"/> *4 November 1680: [[Maurice Berkeley, 3rd Viscount Fitzhardinge|Maurice Berkeley]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=1562|page=1|date=4 November 1680|nolink=y}}</ref><ref name="dunning"/> *1681: [[George Horner (died 1707)|George Horner]] of Mells<ref name="dunning"/> *1682: John Pigott (died 1727) of Brockley<ref name="dunning"/> *1683: [[Henry Bull (MP)|Henry Bull]] of Shapwick<ref name="dunning"/> *1684: Edward Hobbs<ref name="dunning"/> *1685: Edward Baber<ref name="dunning"/> *1686: James Prowse<ref name="dunning"/> *1687: Edward Strode<ref name="dunning"/> *1688: [[Sir John Smith, 2nd Baronet|Sir John Smith, Bt]] of Long Ashton<ref name="dunning"/> *1689: Richard Morgan<ref name="dunning"/> *1689: John Smythe<ref name="dunning"/> *1690: William Whitchurch of Frome Selwood<ref name="dunning"/> *1691: [[William Lacy (MP)|William Lacy]] of Hartrow, Stogumber<ref name="dunning"/> *1692: Warwick Bampfield<ref name="dunning"/> *1693: Robert Siderfin<ref name="dunning"/> *1694: John Champneys<ref name="dunning"/> *1695: Thomas Langton<ref name="dunning"/> *1696: Thomas Dyke<ref name="dunning"/> *1697: Joseph Langton<ref name="dunning"/> *1698: Henry Mompesson of Corston, Wiltshire (1633–1715)<ref name="HERpark">{{cite web |url=http://www.somersetheritage.org.uk/record/23717 |title=Park, Babington House, Babington |access-date=3 September 2007 |work=Somerset Historic Environment Record }}</ref> *1699: Smart Goodenough<ref name="dunning"/> }}
===18th century=== {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| *1700: Francis Holles Newman<ref name="dunning"/> *1701: [[William Helyar (MP)|William Helyar]] of East Coker<ref name="dunning"/> (son of William, HS 1660) *1702: John Mogg<ref name="dunning"/> *1703: Samuel Pitt<ref name="dunning"/> *1704: [[Sir John Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet|Sir John Trevelyan, Bt]] of Nettlecombe<ref name="dunning"/> *1705: Thomas Warre<ref name="dunning"/> *1706: William Fraunceis<ref name="dunning"/> *1707: Robert Smith<ref name="dunning"/> *1708: [[Sir Thomas Wroth, 3rd Baronet|Sir Thomas Wroth]] of Petherton Park<ref name="dunning"/> *1709: Isaac Welman<ref name="dunning"/> *1710: William Blackford<ref name="dunning"/> *1711: [[Thomas Strangways Horner|Thomas Horner]] of Mells<ref name="dunning"/> *1712: Harry Brydges<ref name="dunning"/> *1713: William Strode<ref name="dunning"/> *1714: John Trevillian<ref name="dunning"/> *1715: Henry Walters<ref name="dunning"/> *1716: Joseph Brown<ref name="dunning"/> *1717: Thomas Archer<ref name="dunning"/> *1718: Robert Everard<ref name="dunning"/> *1720: Jepp Clarke<ref name="dunning"/> *1721: William Applin<ref name="dunning"/> *1721: Henry Strode<ref name="dunning"/> *1722: Richard Comes<ref name="dunning"/> *1723: Walter Robinson<ref name="dunning"/> *1724: Christopher Baker<ref name="dunning"/> *1724: John Gatchell<ref name="dunning"/> *1725: Andrew Moore of Newton<ref name="dunning"/><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=6331|page=1|date=22 December 1724 |nolink=y}}</ref> *1726: David Yea<ref name="dunning"/> *1727: Edward Dyke<ref name="dunning"/><ref>{{London Gazette | issue=6533|page=1 | date=26 November 1726 |nolink=y}}</ref> *1727: Edward Dyke (the younger)<ref name="dunning"/> *1728: Richard Champneys<ref name="dunning"/> *1729: Gregory Gardiner<ref name="dunning"/><ref>{{London Gazette | issue=6736|page=1 | date=17 December 1728 |nolink=y}}</ref> *1730: John Pigott of Brockley<ref name="dunning"/> (died in office March 1730)<ref>{{London Gazette | issue=6840 |page=1 | date=16 December 1729 |nolink=y}}</ref> *1731: William Fraunceis of Comslory<ref name="dunning"/><ref>{{London Gazette | issue=6946 |page=1 | date=22 December 1730 |nolink=y}}</ref> *1732: John Proctor<ref name="dunning"/> *1733: John Smyth<ref name="dunning"/> *1734: William Provis of Shepton Mallett<ref name="dunning"/><ref>{{London Gazette | issue=7258 |page=1 | date=18 December 1733 |nolink=y}}</ref> *1734: Thomas Welman<ref name="dunning"/> *1735: John Bricklade<ref name="dunning"/><ref>{{London Gazette | issue=7360|page=1 | date=17 December 1734 |nolink=y}}</ref> *1735: Joseph Langton<ref name="dunning"/> *1736: Orlando Johnson<ref name="dunning"/><ref>{{London Gazette | issue=7464 |page=1 | date=16 December 1735 |nolink=y}}</ref> *1737: John Periam<ref name="dunning"/><ref>{{London Gazette | issue=7578 |page=1 | date=18 January 1736 |nolink=y}}</ref> *1738: James Chaffey Cowper<ref name="dunning"/><ref>{{London Gazette | issue=7666 |page=1 | date=10 January 1737 |nolink=y}}</ref> *1739: John Smith of Stoney Littleton<ref name="dunning"/><ref>{{London Gazette | issue=7764 |page=1 | date=19 December 1738 |nolink=y}}</ref> *1740: John Brickdale<ref name="dunning"/><ref>{{London Gazette | issue=7870|page=1 | date=25 December 1739 |nolink=y}}</ref> *1740: John Freke Brickdale<ref name="dunning"/><ref>{{London Gazette | issue=7880|page=1 | date=29 January 1739 |nolink=y}}</ref> *1741: John Provest of Shepton Mallett<ref name="dunning"/><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=7974| page=1|date=23 December 1740 |nolink=y}}</ref> replaced by William Madox<ref name="dunning"/><ref>{{London Gazette| issue=7984| page=1| date=27 January 1740 |nolink=y}}</ref> *1741: Edward Hallett<ref name="dunning"/> *1742: [[Sir William Pynsent, 2nd Baronet|Sir William Pynsent, Bt]] of Burton, Curry Rivell<ref name="dunning"/><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=8080| page=1|date=29 December 1741 |nolink=y}}</ref> *1742: ?John Smith<ref name="dunning"/> *1743: James Smyth of St. Audries<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=8180||page=1|date=14 December 1742}}</ref> *1743: William Sanford of Nynehead Court<ref name="dunning"/> *1744: Edward Clarke<ref name="dunning"/> *1745: Francis Newman<ref name="dunning"/> *1746: [[John Halliday (died 1754)|John Halliday]] of Yard House, Taunton<ref name="dunning"/> *1747: Thomas Coles<ref name="dunning"/> *1748: James Jeanes<ref name="dunning"/> *1749: Matthew Spencer<ref name="dunning"/> *1750: Henry William Portman<ref name="dunning"/> *1751: [[Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 7th Baronet|Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Bt]] of Killerton<ref>{{cite web|title=Sir Thomas Acland 3rd Baronet Acland of Columb-John|url=http://www.stanford.edu/group/auden/cgi-bin/auden/individual.php?pid=I1688&ged=auden-bicknell.ged&view=preview|publisher=Stanford University|access-date=17 March 2013}}</ref> *1752: John Harding<ref name="dunning"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.freshford.com/hintonhouse1.htm |title=A Brief History of Hinton House |access-date=4 September 2007 |work=Freshford.com }}</ref> *1753: John Macie<ref name="dunning"/> *1754: [[Henry Fownes Luttrell (died 1780)|Henry Fownes Luttrell]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1755: Roger Lyde<ref name="dunning"/> *1756: James Perry<ref name="dunning"/> *1757: John Collins<ref name="dunning"/> *1758: Philip Stevens<ref name="dunning"/> *1759: Henry Powell<ref name="dunning"/> *1760: Sir William Yea, 1st Baronet of Pyrling, Taunton<ref name="dunning"/> *1761: John Adams<ref name="dunning"/> *1762: Thomas Gunston<ref name="dunning"/> *1763: Samuel Dodington<ref name="dunning"/> *1764: William Helyar of East Coker<ref name="dunning"/><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=10390| page=1|date=7 February 1764|nolink=y}}</ref> *1765: [[Robert Paris Taylor]] of Burcott<ref name="dunning"/> *1766: James Tooker<ref name="dunning"/> *1767: William Provis, of Shepton Mallet<ref name="dunning"/><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=10702|page=1|date=10 February 1767}}</ref> *1768: John Helliar<ref name="dunning"/> *1769: William Rodbard of Evercreech<ref name="dunning"/> *1770: Nathaniel Webb<ref name="dunning"/> *1771: Thomas Coward<ref name="dunning"/> *1772: Henry Rodbard<ref name="dunning"/> *1773: John Hugh Smyth<ref name="dunning"/> *1774; John Old Goodford<ref name="dunning"/> *1775: Thomas Champneys 1st Bt.<ref name="dunning"/> *1776: Thomas Wilkins Morgan<ref name="dunning"/> *1777: [[Sir John Trevelyan, 4th Baronet|Sir John Trevelyan, Bt]] of Nettlecombe<ref name="dunning"/> *1778: Thomas Horner<ref name="dunning"/> *1779: Samuel Baker<ref name="dunning"/> *1780: Edward Elton, of Winford Manor, Bristol<ref name="dunning"/> *1781: John Ford<ref name="dunning"/> *1782: James Ireland<ref name="dunning"/> *1783: Peter Sherston<ref name="dunning"/> *1784: Andrew Guy<ref name="dunning"/> *1785: Richard Cross (? Crosse) of Broomfield<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=12619|page=73|date=5 February 1785}}</ref> *1786: James Stephens of Camerton<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=12725|page=65|date=11 February 1786}}</ref> *1787: Nathaniel Dalton of [[Shanks House]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=12829|page=69|date=10 February 1787}}</ref> *1788: [[Sir John Lethbridge, 1st Baronet|John Lethbridge]] (after 1804 1st Baronet) of [[Sandhill Park]], [[Bishops Lydeard]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1789: [[Henry Hippisley Coxe]] of Downside<ref name="dunning"/><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=13092|page=333|date=28 April 1789}}</ref> *1790: John Stephenson<ref name="dunning"/> *1791: Abraham Elton of Whitestanton<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=13279|page=71|date=1 February 1791}}</ref> *1792: [[Thomas Samuel Jolliffe]] of Trotton Place, Sussex<ref name="dunning"/> *1793: Samuel Bailward<ref name="dunning"/> *1794: Charles Knatchbull<ref name="dunning"/> *1795: Edward Lyne<ref name="dunning"/> *1796: John Tyndale Warre<ref name="dunning"/> *1797: [[Samuel Skurray Day|Samuel Day]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1798: Samuel Rodbard<ref name="dunning"/> *1798: John Hurle of Brislington Hill House *1799: James Bennett<ref name="dunning"/> }}
===19th century=== {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| *5 February 1800: Thomas Swimmer Champneys, of Orchard Leigh<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=15228|page=114|date=4 February 1800}}</ref> *11 February 1801: John Band, of [[Wookey]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=15336|page=174|date=10 February 1801}}</ref> *3 February 1802: Benjamin Greenhill, of [[Ston Easton]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=15450|page=113|date=2 February 1802}}</ref> *3 February 1803: [[Smith baronets of Long Ashton (second creation, 1763)|Sir Hugh Smith, 3rd Baronet]], of Wraxhall<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=15555|page=137|date=1 February 1803}}</ref> *1 February 1804: John Rogers, of [[Yarlington]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=15671|page=145|date=31 January 1804}}</ref> *6 February 1805: John Perring, of [[Combe Florey]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=15778|page=175|date=5 February 1805}}</ref> *1 February 1806: Clifton Wheate, of Corse<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=15886|page=145|date=1 February 1806}}</ref> *4 February 1807: [[Hawkins baronets of Kelston (1778)|Sir John Caesar Hawkins, 3rd Baronet]], of [[Kelston]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=15998|page=156|date=7 February 1807}}</ref> *3 February 1808: [[Charles Kemeys Kemeys Tynte|Charles Kemeys-Tynte]], of Halsewell<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=16115|page=173|date=2 February 1808}}</ref> *6 February 1809: John Nurton, of [[Milverton, Somerset|Milverton]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=16226|page=165|date=4 February 1809}}</ref> *31 January 1810: Thomas Strangways Horner, of [[Mells Park]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=16338|page=149|date=30 January 1810}}</ref> <!-- 1762-1844 --> *8 February 1811: John Leigh, of [[Combe Hay]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=16451|page=226|date=5 February 1811}}</ref> *24 January 1812: William Vaughan, of [[Monkton Combe]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=16565|page=142|date=21 January 1812}}</ref> *10 February 1813: [[Sir Peregrine Palmer Fuller-Palmer-Acland, 2nd Baronet|Peregrine Palmer Acland]], of [[Fairfield, Stogursey|Fairfield]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=16702|page=301|date=9 February 1813}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=16705|page=374|date=20 February 1813}}</ref> *4 February 1814: George Edward Allen, of [[Bathampton]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=16852|page=278|date=5 February 1814}}</ref> *13 February 1815: John Phelips, of [[Montacute]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=16984|page=257|date=14 February 1815}}</ref> *1816: John Goodford of Yeovil<ref name="dunning"/> *1817: [[Philip John Miles]] of [[Wraxall, Somerset|Wraxall]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=17219|page=325|date=12 February 1817}}</ref> *1818: John Evered of Hill<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=17326|page=188|date=24 January 1818}}</ref> *1819: William Speke of Ashill<ref name="dunning"/> *1820: Gerard Martin Berkeley Napier of East Pennard, who died in office 13 May 1820 and was replaced by [[Sir Charles Bampfylde, 5th Baronet]]<ref>{{cite web|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=CnUEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA551|title= Dodsley's Annual Register, 1820|year= 1822|access-date = 17 September 2013}} Google Books</ref> *1821: William Hanning, of Dillington<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=17677|pages=328–258|date=6 February 1821}}</ref> *1822: [[Vincent Stuckey]] of Langport<ref name="dunning"/> *1823: John Frederick Pinney<ref name="dunning"/> *1824: Edward Jefferies Esdaile<ref name="dunning"/> *1825: John Quantock<ref name="dunning"/> *1826: William Helyar<ref name="dunning"/> *1827: [[Henry Powell Collins]] of Hatch Court, near Taunton<ref name="dunning"/> *1828: John Hugh Smyth Pygott of Brockley<ref name="dunning"/><ref>Annual Register 1828, volume 70, page 192 by Edmund Burke</ref> *1829: Sir Alexander Hood, 2nd Bt of Wootton<ref name="dunning"/> *1830: [[James Adam Gordon]] of Portbury<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=18652|pages=257–258|date=2 February 1830}}</ref> *1831: Thomas Shewell Bailward, of Horsington<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=18772|pages=194–195|date=1 February 1831}}</ref> *1832: Sir Henry Strachey, 2nd Baronet, of [[Sutton Court]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=18900|pages=254–255|date=6 February 1832}}</ref> *1833: George Henry Carew, of Crowcombe Court<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=19019|page=246|date=5 February 1833}}</ref> *1834: Francis Popham, of West Bagborough<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=19125|page=206|date=4 February 1834}}</ref> *1835: William Manning Dodington, of Horsington<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=19238|pages=235–236|date=9 February 1835}}</ref> *1836: James Bennett, of North Cadbury<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=19353|pages=223–224|date=5 February 1836}}</ref> *1837: Alexander Adair, of Heatherton Park<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=19462|pages=232–233|date=31 January 1837}}</ref> *1838: Robert Phippen, of Badgworth Court<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=19586|page=232|date=1 February 1838}}</ref> *1839: [[Sir William Medlycott, 2nd Baronet]], of [[Milborne Port]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=19704|page=214|date=9 February 1839}}</ref> *1840: John Jarrett, of Camerton<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=19819|pages=197–198|date=31 January 1840}}</ref> *1841: [[William Knatchbull|William Francis Knatchbull]], of Babington<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=19948|pages=303–304|date=5 February 1841}}</ref> *1842: [[Robert Charles Tudway]], of the city of Wells<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=20067|pages=285–286|date=4 February 1842}}</ref> *1843: [[Philip Pleydell-Bouverie]], of Brymore<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=20192|pages=371–372|date=1 February 1843}}</ref> *1844: [[John Fownes Luttrell (1787–1857)|John Fownes Luttrell]], of [[Dunster Castle]]<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=jc0kh800jGIC&pg=RA3-PA160&lpg=RA3-PA160 Sheriffs for the Year 1844] in ''[[The Annual Register]]'' for 1844, p. 160, online at books.google.com. Retrieved 26 January 2008</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=20311|pages=347–348|date=31 January 1844}}</ref> <!-- the younger; 1787-1857 --> *1845: [[John Lee Lee]], of [[Dillington House]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=20439|pages=315–316|date=4 February 1845}}</ref> *1846: Richard Meade King, of Pyrland Hall<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=20566|pages=361–362|date=30 January 1846}}</ref> *1847: John Matthew Quantock, of Norton-sub-Hamdon<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=20698|pages=410–411|date=5 February 1847}}</ref> *1848: [[Edward Ayshford Sanford]], of Nynehead Court<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=20825|pages=541–542|date=11 February 1848}}</ref> *1849: George William Blathwayt, of Porlock<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=20944|pages=431–432|date=13 February 1849}}</ref> *1850: Langley St Albyn, of Alfoxton<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=21065|pages=313–314|date=5 February 1850}}</ref> *1851: Thomas Tutton Knyfton, of Uphill<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=21181|page=363|date=11 February 1851}}</ref> *1852: Montague Gore, of Barrow Court<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=21287|page=289|date=3 February 1852}}</ref> *1853: [[Francis Henry Dickinson]], of Kingweston<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=21409|page=329|date=8 February 1853}}</ref> *1854: James Curtis Somerville, of Dinder<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=21517|page=265|date=31 January 1854}}</ref> *1855: George Barons Northcote, of Somerset Court<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=21660|page=470|date=9 February 1855}}</ref> *1856: John Hippisley, of [[Ston Easton Park]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=21844|page=361|date=31 January 1856}}</ref> *1857: [[Sir Arthur Elton, 7th Baronet]], of [[Clevedon Court]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=21964|page=379|date=3 February 1857}}</ref> *1858: [[Sir Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood, 3rd Baronet|Sir Alexander Acland-Hood, 3rd Baronet]], of St Audries<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22091|page=539|date=3 February 1858}}</ref> *1859: Edward Berkeley Napier, of East Pennard<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22226|page=454|date=2 February 1859}}</ref> *1860: Robert James Elton, of Whitestaunton<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22348|page=213|date=23 January 1860}}</ref> *1861: Francis Wheat Newton, of [[Corfe|Barton Grange]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22477|page=433|date=5 February 1861}}</ref> *1862: [[Ralph Neville-Grenville]], of Butleigh Court<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22596|pages=648–649|date=7 February 1862}}</ref> *1863: [[George Treweeke Scobell]], of Kingwell<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22704|page=573|date=3 February 1863}}</ref> *1864: [[Sir Edward Strachey, 3rd Baronet]], of [[Sutton Court]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22815|page=525|date=3 February 1864}}</ref> *1865: [[Sir John Henry Greville Smyth, 1st Baronet]], of [[Ashton Court]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22936|page=559|date=4 February 1865}}</ref> *1866: George Bullock<ref>{{cite book | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=NNdkxHnE8SgC | title= Annual Register | last= Burke | first= Edmund | publisher= Rivingtons | year = 1867}}</ref> *1867: Richard Thomas Combe<ref name="dunning"/> *1868: Inigo William Jones<ref name="dunning"/> *1869: William Blake<ref name="dunning"/> *1870: Robert Guy Evered<ref name="dunning"/> *1871: Henry Cornish Henley<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=23704|page=473|date=8 February 1871}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=23719|page=1541|date=24 March 1871}}</ref> *1872: Mordaunt Fenwick-Bisset, of Bagborough, Taunton<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=23825|page=404|date=6 February 1872}}</ref> *1873: Richard King Meade-King, of Walford, Taunton<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=23945|page=514|date=6 February 1873}}</ref> *1874: George Fownes Luttrell, of [[Dunster Castle]], Dunster<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=24061|page=481|date=2 February 1874}}</ref> *1875: Henry Gorges Moysey, of Batheaston Court, Wiveliscombe, Wellington<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=24177|page=450|date=4 February 1875}}</ref> *1876: Henry Duncan Skrine, of Warleigh, Bathford, Bath<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=24293|page=638|date=12 February 1876}}</ref> *1877: [[William Pinney]], of Somerton Erleigh, Somerton<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=24416|page=608|date=7 February 1877}}</ref> *1878: Philip Pleydell Bouverie, of Brymore, Bridgwater<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=24554|page=878|date=22 February 1878}}</ref> *1879: Edward Charles Chetham-Strode, of South Hill, Shepton Mallet<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=24683|page=927|date=22 February 1879}}</ref> *1880: [[Edward Stanley (1826–1907)|Edward James Stanley]], of Quantock Lodge, Nether Stowey, Bridgwater<ref>{{London Gazette| issue=24817|page=1697|date=26 February 1880}}</ref> *1881: Henry Acland Fownes Luttrell, of Badgworth Court, Axbridge<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=24945|page=979|date=2 March 1881}}</ref> *1882: Thomas Palfrey Broadmead<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=25078|page=870|date=28 February 1882}}</ref><ref>{{cite Men-at-the-Bar|name=Broadmead, Thomas Palfrey|page=56}}</ref> *1883: Vincent Stuckey, of Hill House, Langport<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=25208|page=1231|date=3 March 1883}}</ref> *1884: Charles Jefferys Watson Allen, of Lyngford House, Taunton<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=25325|page=1117|date=4 March 1884}}</ref> *1885: [[John Francis Fortescue Horner]], of [[Mells Park]], Frome<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=25449|page=970|date=6 March 1885}}</ref> *1886: Alexander William Adair, of Heatherton Park, Wellington<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=25566|page=1136|date=9 March 1886}}</ref> *1887: Thomas Marriott-Dodington, of Horsington House, Wincanton<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=25680|page=1222|date=8 March 1887}}</ref> *1888: Antony Gibbs, of Charlton House, Wraxall, Nailsea<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=25798|page=1696|date=20 March 1888}}</ref> *1889: Charles Edward Jeffries Esdaile, of Cothelstone, Taunton<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=25922|page=2009|date=9 April 1889}}</ref> *1890: Edward Talbot Day Foxcroft, of Hinton Charterhouse, Bath<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26036|page=1782|date=25 March 1890}}</ref> *1891: William Wildman Kettlewell<ref name="dunning"/> *1892: William Barrett<ref name="dunning"/> *1893: Henry Ernst<ref name="dunning"/> *1894: William Speke<ref name="dunning"/> *1895: [[Sir Edmund Elton, 8th Baronet|Sir Edmund Harry Elton, Bt.]], of Clevedon Court, Clevedon<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26606|page=1455|date=12 March 1895}}</ref> *1896: Robert Pooll Henry Batten-Pooll, of Road Manor, Road, Bath<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26720|page=1596|date=10 March 1896}}</ref> *1897: Henry Martin Gibbs of Barrow Gurney<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26828|page=1238|date=2 March 1897}}</ref> *1898: Edward William-Berkeley Portman of Hestercombe, [[Taunton]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26945|page=1414|date=8 March 1898}}</ref> *1899: William Long of Woodlands, Congresbury, Bristol<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27061|page=1660|date=10 March 1899}}</ref> }}
===20th century=== {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| *1900: Robert Neville-Grenville of Butleigh Court, [[Butleigh]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27171 |page=1520| date=6 March 1900}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Butleigh people — N|url=http://butleigh.org/butleighpeople/ButleighPeopleN.html|publisher=Butleigh ancestry|access-date=17 March 2013}}</ref> *1901: William Robert Phelips, of [[Montacute House]], Montacute<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27293 |date=12 March 1901 |page=1760}}</ref> *1902: Edwin Brooke Cely Trevilian, of [[Midelney Manor]], Curry Rivell, [[Taunton]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27414|page=1625|date=7 March 1902}}</ref> *1903: Frederick Spencer<ref name="dunning"/> *1904: Henry Hales Pleydell-Bouverie<ref name="dunning"/> *1905: [[William Wills, 1st Baron Winterstoke|William Henry Wills]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1906: Francis James Fry<ref name="dunning"/> *1907: Richard John Baynton Hippisley<ref name="dunning"/> *1908: Colonel Edward Charles Ayshford Sanford of Chipley Park<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28115 |date=3 March 1908 |page=1480 }}</ref> *1909: Arthur Fownes Somerville, of Dinder, Wells<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28229 |date=3 March 1909 |page=1655 }}</ref> *1910: [[Henry Herbert Wills]], of Barley Wood, Wrington, Bristol<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28346 |date=8 March 1910 |page=1680 }}</ref> *1911: [[Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey, 1st Baronet|Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey, Bt]] *1912: William Bucknell Broadmead<ref name="dunning"/> *1913: Henry William Paget Hoskins<ref name="dunning"/> *1914: Joseph Cooke Hurle<ref name="dunning"/> *1915: Gerard Martin Berkeley Napier<ref name="dunning"/> *1916: Francis Henry Cheetham<ref name="dunning"/> *1917: Gerard Stuart Lysaght<ref name="dunning"/> *1918: Henry Thomas Daniel<ref name="dunning"/> *1919: Arthur Vaughan Hanning Vaughan-Lee<ref name="dunning"/> *1920: Henry Matthew Ridley<ref name="dunning"/> *1921: Arthur Capel<ref name="dunning"/> *1922: Roger Marriott Dodington<ref name="dunning"/> *1923: [[Sir Dennis Boles, 1st Baronet|Sir Dennis Fortescue Boles, Bt.]]<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=32805 |date=13 March 1923 |page=1990 }}</ref> *1924: Arthur Campbell Duckworth<ref name="dunning"/> *1925: Maurice Fearing Cely-Trevilian<ref name="dunning"/> *1926: [[Frank Beauchamp|Sir Frank Beauchamp]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1927: Walter Hanning-Speke<ref name="dunning"/> *1928: [[William Mason, 1st Baron Blackford|Sir William Mason, Bt]]<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=33369 |date=23 March 1928 |page=2127 }}</ref> *1929: Harold Hamilton Broadmead<ref name="dunning"/> *1930: Huntley Gordon Spencer<ref name="dunning"/> *1931: William Oliver Evelyn Meade-King<ref name="dunning"/> *1932: Reginald Arthur Hobhouse<ref name="dunning"/> *1933: William Hartley Maud<ref name="dunning"/> *1934: Sir [[Matthew Nathan]] of Manor House, West Coker<ref name="dunning"/> *1935: Geoffrey Fownes Luttrell<ref name="dunning"/> *1936: William Otter Gibbs<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=34261 |date=3 March 1936 |page=1380 }}</ref> *1937: James Archibald Garton<ref name="dunning"/> *1938: Sir Archibald Lawrence Langman, Bt of North Cadbury Court <ref name="dunning"/> *1939: Sir Frederick Henry Berryman of Shepton Mallet<ref name="dunning"/> *1940: Arthur Hamilton Yatman<ref name="dunning"/> *1941: Edward Phillip Thursfield<ref name="dunning"/> *1942: Charles Edward Burnell<ref name="dunning"/> *1943; Arthur Westall Vivian-Neal<ref name="dunning"/> *1944: Frederick Willoughby Hancock<ref name="dunning"/> *1945: Edmund Fletcher Rees-Mogg<ref>{{cite web|title=Edmund Fletcher Rees-Mogg, High Sheriff of Somerset (1945)|url=http://lyons.familytreeguide.com/getperson.php?personID=IND01337&tree=T1&PHPSESSID=0b3367516f00dd4f877f43e5ad7fd998|publisher=Lyons family tree|access-date=17 March 2013}}</ref> *1946: Walter Stuart Batten-Pooll of Rode Manor, Bath resigned April 1946<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=37509|page=1493|date=22 March 1946 |nolink=y}}</ref> *1946: Walter Douglas Melville Wills<ref name="dunning"/> *1947: Edmund Page<ref name="dunning"/> *1948: Hubert Stanley Radcliffe<ref name="dunning"/> *1949: Henry Cave Daniel<ref name="dunning"/> *1950: Henry William Whitby Hoskins<ref name="dunning"/> *1951: [[Robert Sinclair, 1st Baron Sinclair of Cleeve|Sir Robert John Sinclair]] of Cleeve Court, near Bristol.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=39175 |date=16 March 1951 |page=1428 }}</ref> *1952: [[Arthur John Capel]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1953: Wilfrid Leighton<ref name="dunning"/> *1954: [[Walter Shuldham|Major Walter Frank Quantock Shuldham]], of East Stoke House, Stoke-under-Ham.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=40155 |date=2 March 1954 |page=1315 }}</ref> *1955: Major General [[Roger Evans (British Army officer)|Roger Evans]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1956: John Kenric La Touche Mardon<ref name="dunning"/> *1957: John Goodenough Newton<ref name="dunning"/> *1958: Wilfred Anson<ref name="dunning"/> *1959: Nicholas Brabazon Clive-Ponsonby-Fane<ref name="dunning"/> *1960: [[Walter Luttrell|Sir Walter Luttrell]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1961: Richard Cely-Trevilian<ref name="dunning"/> *1962: Gilbert Poole<ref name="dunning"/> *1963: Cecil Mitford-Slade<ref name="dunning"/> *1964: Richard Hill<ref name="dunning"/> *1965: Marshal of the RAF [[John Slessor|Sir John Slessor]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1966: [[Malet baronets|Sir Edward Malet]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1967: Sir Ian Duff Lyle of Barrington Court<ref name="dunning"/> *1968: [[Sir John Wills, 4th Baronet|Sir John Wills, Bt]] of Langford Court, Langford<ref name="dunning"/> *1969: Hugh Webb Faulkner of Hatch Beauchamp, died in office 24 May 1969<ref name="dunning"/> *June 1969: William Quincy Roberts of Stonewalls, Newton St. Loe, near Bath<ref name="dunning"/> *1970: John Anthony Clark<ref name="dunning"/> *1971: [[Bill Hoskyns|Henry William Furse Hoskyns]] of [[South Petherton]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1972: Colin John Richard Trotter<ref name="dunning"/> *1973: Gerald Hignett<ref name="dunning"/> }}
==High Sheriff of Somerset==
===20th century=== {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| *1974: David Tudway Quilter<ref name="dunning"/> *1975: Matthew Waley-Cohen<ref name="dunning"/> *1976: John Stephen Lloyd of [[Langford Budville]]<ref name="dunning"/> *1977: Patrick Henry Daniel<ref name="dunning"/> *1978: [[William Rees-Mogg]]<ref>{{cite news|last=Bates|first=Stephen|title=Lord Rees-Mogg obituary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/dec/29/william-rees-mogg-obituary|access-date=17 March 2013|newspaper=The Guardian|date=29 December 2012}}</ref> *1979: William Kenneth Bingham Crawford<ref name="dunning"/> *1980: John Alexander Lindley of Wellington, Somerset<ref name="dunning"/> *1981: Arthur John Greswell<ref name="dunning"/> *1982: Peter Gerald Hanning Speke of Rowlands, Ilminster<ref>{{London Gazette|issue= 48919|page=3495|date= 12 March 1982}}</ref> *1983: Charles John de Salis<ref name="dunning"/> *1984: Charles Edward Brabazon Clive-Ponsonby-Fane<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=49677 |date=15 March 1984 |page=3868 }}</ref> *1985: John Samuel Byard White<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=50071 |date=22 March 1985 |page=4108 }}</ref> *1986: [[Ewen Cameron, Baron Cameron of Dillington|Ewan James Hanning Cameron]] of [[Whitelackington]] Manor, Ilminster.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue= 50472|page=4374|date= 27 March 1986}}</ref> *1987: Michael James Frederick Carter of Batcombe House, Shepton Mallet<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1324383/Michael-Carter.html| title= Michael Carter|work= The Telegraph|access-date=15 February 2011|location=London|date=28 February 2001}}</ref> *1988: William Alexander Charles Theed of [[Combe Sydenham]] Hall, Taunton<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=51281 |date=24 March 1988 |page=3545 }}</ref> *1989: Ralph William Vivian-Neal of [[Poundisford Park]], Poundisford, Taunton<ref>{{London Gazette|issue= 51678|page=3358|date= 17 March 1989}}</ref> *1990: Malcolm Henry Alistair Fraser *1991: Ian Crawford MacDonald *1992: Edward William Ayshford Sanford of Chipley Park, Langford Budville<ref>{{London Gazette|issue= 52868|page=5026|date= 20 March 1992}}</ref> *1993: John Hedworth Jolliffe *1994: [[Elizabeth Gass, Lady Gass]] *1995: Roy Scrymgeour Graham Hewett *1996: Christopher Phillip Thomas-Everard *1997: Richard Stanton Roy Sheldon *1998: Micaela Elizabeth Benedicta Beckett *1999: [[Tom Yandle|Thomas Andrew Heath Yandle]] }}
===21st century=== {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| *2000: Angela Betty Yeoman *2001: Thomas Hugh Ruscombe Poole *2002: Robert Ian Hoddell of Grange Farm, [[Upper Langford]], Bristol.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=56531 |page=4282|date=9 April 2002}}</ref> *2003: Brian Michael Tanner of Fourways, 8 Broadlands Road, [[Taunton]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=56884 |page=3603|date=21 March 2003}}</ref> *2004: Stephen Alexander Evans of Tuckerton Farm, [[North Petherton|North Newton]], Bridgwater.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=57230 |page=3127|date=11 March 2004}}</ref> *2005: Fiona Clare Lambart Densham of Glaisters, Church Walk, [[Wrington]].<ref>[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/L-57598-1006 Appointment of Sheriffs]</ref> *2006: Brigadier Alastair Ian Hayward Fyfe of [[Seavington St Michael]], Ilminster<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=57921 |page=3376|date=9 March 2006}}</ref> *2007: David John Medlock<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=58266 |page=3314|date=7 March 2007}}</ref> *2008: Anne Caroline Maw of [[Pilton, Somerset|Pilton]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=58510 |page=16432|date=13 November 2007}}</ref> *2009: John Alvis of [[Winford]]<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.somerset.gov.uk/somerset/council/lieutenancy/sheriff/ | title= The High Sheriff | publisher= Somerset County Council | access-date=8 March 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/2009/02/12/114247/farming-families-the-alvises-of-somerset.html | date= 12 February 2009 | title= Farming Families: The Alvises of Somerset | publisher= [[Farmers Weekly]] | access-date=8 March 2009}}</ref> *2010: Patricia Ann Hunt of Taunton<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=59364|page=4708|date=18 March 2010}}</ref> *2011: John David Cullum of Bath<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=59729|page=4995|date=17 March 2011}}</ref> *2012: Sylvana Margery Glazebrook Chandler of [[Orchard Wyndham]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=60087| page=5224|date=15 March 2012}}</ref> *2013: Maureen Effie Whitmore of Butcombe<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=60447|page=5102|date=14 March 2013}}</ref> *2014: Richard David Ayshford Lloyd of Langford Budville, Wellington<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=60799|page=4636|date=6 March 2014}}</ref> *2015: Lucy Nelson of Pen Selwood, Wincanton<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=61177|page=5242|date=23 March 2015}}</ref> *2016: Edward Bayntun-Coward of Midford, Bath<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=61527|page=5942|date=17 March 2016}}</ref> *2017: [[Richard Saladin Hickmet]] of Bridgwater <ref>{{London Gazette|issue=61868|page=5262|date=10 March 2017}}</ref> *2018: Denis Andrew Southerden Burn of Cleeve, Bristol<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=62229 |page=4814|date=15 March 2018 |nolink=y}}</ref> *2019: Jonathan Alexander Newton Halliday of Corfe, Taunton<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=62586| page=4643|date=15 March 2019}}</ref> *2020: Mary-Clare Helene Rodwell of Shepton Mallett<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=62943|page=5162|date=13 March 2020}}</ref> *2021: William Henry Thomas Sheppard of Bath<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=63290|page=4778|date=11 March 2021}}</ref> *2022: Jennifer Margaret Duke of Luxborough, Watchet<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=63644|page=5082|date=17 March 2022}}</ref> *2023: Robert Nicholas Foord Drewett of Bishop Sutton<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=63990|page=4634|date=10 March 2023}}</ref> *2024: [[Rob Beckley (police officer)|Robert John Beckley]], of Taunton<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=64345|page=5286|date=15 March 2024}}</ref> *2025: Janet Montgomery, of Yeovil<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=64681|page=5010|date=14 March 2025}}</ref> *2026: Peter Charles Dixon, Bath<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=65014|page=4678|date=12 March 2026}}</ref> }}
==References== {{Reflist}} {{refbegin}} *{{cite web| url= http://www.somerset.gov.uk/somerset/council/officeofhighsheriff/previoushighsheriffs/| title= Recent High Sheriffs| publisher= Somerset County Council| access-date= 8 March 2009| archive-date= 1 December 2008| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081201202728/http://www.somerset.gov.uk/somerset/council/officeofhighsheriff/previoushighsheriffs/| url-status= dead}} {{refend}}
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