• Source: Sheriff of Canterbury

      • The Sheriff of Canterbury is a shrievalty in the city of Canterbury, England. The office was first held in 1461 by Richard Carpenter, when a charter of king Edward IV granted the city the perpetual status of a county independent of Kent itself. The role was at that time involved in police and legal functions (overseeing public executions, collecting taxes and having powers of arrest), but is now honorific. The role survived the local government reorganisation of 1974, when a large number of other areas lost County Borough status and thus had their Sheriffs' posts abolished, and the Sheriff is still elected at the Annual Council Meeting in May. Canterbury City Council in 2002 merged the role of deputy Chairman of the Council into that of Sheriff, to create a Civic Team of only the Sheriff and the Lord Mayor.


      List of holders


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      1461 Richard Carpenter :first Sheriff of Canterbury
      1462 Hamon Bele
      1463 John Bygge
      1464 John Wattys
      1465 William Bele
      1466 Walter Hopton
      1467 Richard Carpenter
      1468 John Bygge
      1469 Thomas Atte Wode
      1470 William Faunt
      1471 Nicholas Sheldewych
      1522 Robert Lewys : MP for Canterbury, 1539 and 1545
      1529 John Starky : MP for Canterbury, 1539
      1530 Francis Rutland
      1531 James Thomson
      1532 John Johnson
      1533 John Toftos
      1534 John Alcock
      1535 John Hobbys
      1536 Thomas Calowe
      1537 George Webbe : MP for Canterbury, 1553
      1538 William Copyn : MP for Canterbury, 1553 and 1554
      1539 Henry Gere
      1540 John Fuller
      1541 Robert Brown
      1542 Thomas Batherste
      1543 Roger Welles
      1544 John Twyne : headmaster of the newly reconstituted King's School in 1542, MP for Canterbury, 1553 and 1554.
      1549 George Maye : MP for Canterbury, 1559
      1551 Thomas Walker
      1563 Anthony Webbe : MP for Canterbury, 1572
      1572 Bartholomew Brome : MP for Canterbury, 1589
      1575 Bartholomew Brome : MP for Canterbury, 1589


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      See also


      Mayors of Canterbury


      References




      External links


      www.canterbury.gov.uk

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