High Sheriff of Flintshire
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This is a list of High Sheriffs of Flintshire.
The High Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. Formerly the High Sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the centuries most of the responsibilities associated with the post have been transferred elsewhere or are now defunct, so that its functions are now largely ceremonial. The High Sheriff changes every March. The shrievalty of Flintshire, together with that of Denbighshireshire, was abolished in 1974 when the county and shrievalty of Clwyd was created.
The High Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. Formerly the High Sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the centuries most of the responsibilities associated with the post have been transferred elsewhere or are now defunct, so that its functions are now largely ceremonial. The High Sheriff changes every March. The shrievalty of Flintshire, together with that of Denbighshireshire, was abolished in 1974 when the county and shrievalty of Clwyd was created.
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- 1901: Philip Thomas GodsalPhilip Thomas GodsalMajor Philip Thomas Godsal, Soldier, gentleman, marksman, historian and inventor of a gun mechanism was born at Plas Fron, Wrexham in 1850, the son of Philip William Godsal, of Iscoyd Park and Charlotte Harriet Garth...
, of Iscoyd Park - 1902: Sir Wyndham Charles Henry Hanmer
- 1906: James Williams
- 1907: Lieutenant - Colonel Edward Lloyd, of Hafod, Mold
- 1908:
- 1939: Sir Geoffrey SummersSir Geoffrey Summers, 1st BaronetSir Geoffrey Summers, 1st Baronet CBE, DL, JP, CStJ , was a British businessman.Educated at Uppingham and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Summers served in the First World War with the Royal Engineers...
of Cornist Hall, Flint - 1944: Richard Felix Summers, of Denna Hall,Burton Point, Wirral, Cheshire
- 1945: Robert Wynne Bankes, C.B.E., of Soughton Hall, Northop, Flintshire
- 1946: Arthur Dunnot Humberston Pennant, of Nantlys, St. Asaph
- 1947: William Joseph Hodson, of Buckley, near Chester
- 1948:
- 1951: Charles Andrew GladstoneSir Charles Gladstone, 6th BaronetSir Charles Andrew Gladstone, 6th Baronet was a Master at Eton College and a British Baronet.Gladstone was the son of the Reverend Stephen Edward Gladstone and Annie Crosthwaite Wilson, and the grandson of the former Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone. As a ten year old, he attended William...
- 1952:
- 1969: Sir Geoffrey Voltelin Bates, Bt., M.C.,of Gyrn Castle, Llanasa, Holywell.
- 1970: Colonel James Ellis Evans, O.B.E., T.D.,of Prestatyn.
- 1971: Major Basil Hugh Philipse Heaton.M.B.E., of Rhual, Mold.
- 1972: Stephen Alexander Reith Gray, Esq., of Lower Soughton, Northop, Mold.
- 1973: Reginald Townsend Smith, Esq., of " Craxton ",Gronant Road, Prestatyn.
- 1974 onwards - See High Sheriff of ClwydHigh Sheriff of ClwydThe office of High Sheriff of Clwyd was established in 1974 as part of the creation of the county of Clwyd in Wales following the Local Government Act 1972, and effectively replaced the shrievalties of the amalgamated counties of Flintshire and Denbighshire....