Sheriff of Newcastle upon Tyne

The office of Sheriff of Newcastle upon Tyne existed from 1400 (624 years ago) (1400) until local government reorganisation in 1974 (50 years ago) (1974), and was reintroduced in 1996 (28 years ago) (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.

[nactsew-1] "Newcastle upon Tyne". Shrievalties. National Association of City & Town Sheriffs of England & Wales. Retrieved 16 April 2020.

[shutterstock-2] "Violet Grantham First Woman Lord Mayor Newcastle Editorial Stock Photo - Stock Image | Shutterstock". Shutterstock Editorial. 19 May 1952. Retrieved 16 April 2020.

[holland-3] Holland, Daniel (23 May 2019). "Historic appointment as Newcastle names new Lord Mayor and Sheriff". The Chronicle. Retrieved 16 April 2020.

[city-4] "Lord Mayor of Newcastle". www.newcastle.gov.uk. Newcastle City Council. Retrieved 16 April 2020.

[nhle-statue-5] Historic England. "Statue of Queen Victoria (1024771)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 16 April 2020.

[vicweb-6] ""Queen Victoria (Newcastle)" by Sir Alfred Gilbert". www.victorianweb.org. The Victorian Web. Retrieved 16 April 2020.

[morton-7] Morton, David (24 July 2014). "Remember When: Queen Victoria's statue in Newcastle - then and now". The Chronicle. Retrieved 16 April 2020.

[8] "Farewell CLLR Anita Lower | Newcastle City Council".

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