Sheriff of Middlesex

History of the office

From c. 1131 to 1889 there was no separate sheriff for the county. By a charter of Henry I the livery of the City of London were given the right to elect two sheriffs of "London and Middlesex" on a payment of £300 per annum to the Crown. This continued until 1889, when the Local Government Act 1888 came into force. A single High Sheriff of Middlesex was thereafter appointed in the same manner as other English counties. At the same time, the most populous parts of Middlesex were included in the new County of London, which had its own high sheriff.

The office ceased to exist in 1965, when Middlesex was abolished. The majority of the area became part of the jurisdiction of the High Sheriff of Greater London.

List of sheriffs

1044: Esgar the Staller

1066: Geoffrey de Mandeville

Roger de Rames

1103: Hugh of Buckland

1131–1888

See List of Sheriffs of London

1889–1899

Note: the years shown are the shrieval years. Sheriffs were appointed at a meeting of the privy council generally held in February or March and held office until the similar meeting in the next year. For example, high sheriff appointed in March 1892 "for the year 1892" held office until March 1893.

1889: Colonel Edward John Stracey-Clitherow, of Boston House, Brentford

1890: Colonel Charles Edward Gostling-Murray, of Whitton Park, Hounslow

1891: Sir John Gibbons, 5th Baronet, of Stanwell Place, Staines, Bt.

1892: Edward Montague Nelson of Hanger Hill House, Ealing

1893: Lieutenant-Colonel William Horatio Harfield of Sunbury Court, Sunbury

1894: Thomas Francis Blackwell of The Cedars, Harrow Weald

1895: August Christoph Rudolf de Wette of Hampton House, Hampton Court

1896: Walter Barnard Byles of Harefield House, Harefield

1897: Lieutenant-Colonel Bernard Tindal Bosanquet of Fairholme, Teddington

1898: Irwin Edward Bainbridge Cox of Moat Mount, Mill Hill

1899–1909

1899: Francis Augustus Bevan of Trent Park, Enfield

1900: John Walker Ford of Enfield Old Park, Winchmore Hill

1901: Frederick Cox of Harefield Place, Harefield

1902: Cory Francis Cory-Wright of Northwood, Hornsey Lane

1903: Lieutenant Alfred Henry Tarleton of Breakspears, Uxbridge

1904: Joseph Edward Lilley of The Chestnuts, Wealdstone

1905: Cecil Fane De Salis of Dawley Court, Uxbridge

1906: Alexander Keith Carlyon of Mount Park, Harrow

1907: Thomas Croysdale of Hawke House, Sunbury

1908: Sir George Barham of Sudbury Park, Wembley

1909–1919

1909: Edward Otter of Stanhope Park, Greenford

1910: Edward Moore of 19 Cumberland Terrace, Regent's Park

1911: Sir William John Crump of Glenthorn, Harrow Weald

1912: Arthur Nockolds Gilbey of Swakeleys, Uxbridge

1913: Philip William Poole Carlyon-Britton of Hanham Court, Gloucestershire and 43 Bedford Square, London SW

1914: George Acton Davis of Julian Hill, Harrow on the Hill

1915: Gibbons Grinling of Fairfield, Harrow Weald

1916: George William Barber of Park House, Englefield Green, Surrey

1917: Henry Burt of 15 Albert Court, Kensington Gore, London SW

1918: Stanley Marseille Dent of 13 Westbourne Street, Hyde Park, London W

1919–1929

1919: Edward Laurence Hamilton of the Cedars, South Mimms

1920: John William Burton of 15 Collingham Gardens, SW5

1921: John McEwan of Carisbrooke, Enfield

1922: Alfred William Perkin of Greenford Green, Harrow

1923: John Maitland of Blythwood, Enfield

1924: Alfred Hollington of The Cottage, The Ridgeway, Potters Bar

1925: Henry Walter Peal of Oakhurst, St Stephen's Road, Ealing

1926: Colonel Cecil Henry Pank of Westfield, Hadley Wood

1927: Percy Barlow of Torkington House, Acton

1928: Colonel Sir Henry Ferryman Bowles of Forty Hill, Enfield, Baronet.

1929–1939

1929: Major Sir William Henry Prescott of Allington House, White Hart Lane, Tottenham

1930: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Pinkham of 127 Dartmouth Road, Cricklewood

1931: James Warren of Capel House, Bullsmoor Lane, Waltham Cross

1932: Lieutenant-Colonel Montagu Francis Markham Sloane Kittoe of Leafland, Harrow on the Hill

1933: John Smyth Crone, of Castlereagh, Cleveland Road, W13

1934: Forrester Clayton, of 7 Gunnersbury Avenue, Ealing

1935: Colonel Edwin James King of the Old House, East Finchley

1936: George James Furness of Roundwood House, Willesden

1937: Sir Howard Stransom Button of The Cedar House, Hillingdon

1938: Colonel Augustus Mervyn Owen Anwyl-Passingham of 34 St. Leonard's Terrace, London SW3

1939–1949

1939: George James Barnard Furness of Sheridan, Grimms Hill, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire (son of 1936 high sheriff)

1940: Sir Gilfrid Gordon Craig of The Grange, Hillingdon

1941: William Micah Bolton of "Meloch", Harlesden Road, NW10

1942: Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Walker Roylance of 6 Wellesley House, Lower Sloane Street SW1

1943: John William Catlow of 148 Anson Road, Cricklewood, NW2

1944: Group Captain Alan Sydney Whitehorn Dore of Eastcote Point, Cuckoo Hill, Pinner

1945: Rowland Richard Robbins of Hollycroft, Sipson, West Drayton

1946: Clement Edward Page Taylor of Woodthorpe, 37 Stonebridge Park, NW10

1947: Colonel Robert Robertson Kimmitt, of 8, Cleveland Road, Ealing, W.13.

1948: Brevet-Colonel Maurice Browne, Middlesex Regiment, Inglis Barracks, Mill Hill, N.W.7.

1949–1959

1949: George Weston of 10, Sutherland Avenue, Paddington W.9.

1950: Herbert John Nias, of Aysgarth, College Road, Isleworth

1951: John Donaldson Craig of Old Manor Cottage, Park Road, Teddington

1952: Harold Walter Jones of 10, The Paddocks, Wembley Park, Wembley

1953: Major Arthur John Lewer, of Boundary House, Green Walk, Norwood Green, Southall

1954: William Reginald Clemens of 90, Beaufort Park, Hampstead Garden Suburb, N.W.11.

1955: Charles William Skinner of 96, Alderman's Hill, Palmers Green, N.13.

1956: Arthur Hillier, of 31, Arlington House, Arlington Street, S.W.1.

1957: Charles Bennett Baggs, of Laurel Bank, Holders Hill Road, Hendon, N.W.4.

1958: Sir (Stanley) Graham Rowlandson, of 16, Welbeck Street, London W.1.

1959–1965

1959: Herbert Charles Nias, of "Whyte Leafe", The Ridgeway, Fetcham, Surrey.

1960: Sir Christopher George Armstrong Cowan, of Kiln Farm, Rickmansworth Road, Northwood.

1961: Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred James Ross, of Frethun Cottage, 20 Grimsdyke Crescent, Barnet, Hertfordshire

1962: Major George Robert Hesketh Wrangham, of 26 The Avenue, Ealing, London W.13.

1963: Colonel Sir Joseph Henry Haygarth, of "Braeside", Manor Park Gardens, Edgware.

1964: Frederick John Charles Ingram of 52 Vivian Way, Deansway, London N.2.

1965 onwards: See High Sheriff of Greater London