The High Sheriff of Hertfordshire was an ancient High Sheriff

High Sheriff

A high sheriff is, or was, a law enforcement officer in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States.In England and Wales, the office is unpaid and partly ceremonial, appointed by the Crown through a warrant from the Privy Council. In Cornwall, the High Sheriff is appointed by the Duke of...

 title originating in the time of the Angles

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, not long after the invasion of the Kingdom of England

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, which was in existence for around a thousand years. The High Shrievalties are the oldest secular titles under the Crown in England and Wales, their purpose being to represent the monarch at a local level, historically in the shires.

The office was a powerful position in earlier times, as sheriffs were responsible for the maintenance of law and order

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 and various other roles. It was only in 1908 under Edward VII of the United Kingdom

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 that the Lord Lieutenant became more senior than the High Sheriff. Since then the position of High Sheriff has become more ceremonial, with many of its previous responsibilities transferred to High Court judge

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s, magistrate

Magistrate

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s, coroner

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s, local authorities and the police

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.

Below is a list of High Sheriffs of Hertfordshire.

List of High Sheriffs of Hertfordshire

Prior to 1567 the High Sheriff of Essex

High Sheriff of Essex

The High Sheriff of Essex was an ancient High Sheriff title originating in the time of the Angles, not long after the invasion of the Kingdom of England, which was in existence for around a thousand years...

 was also the sheriff of Hertfordshire.

• Anno 9 Elizabeth : This County was severed from that of Essex
  High Sheriff of Essex
  The High Sheriff of Essex was an ancient High Sheriff title originating in the time of the Angles, not long after the invasion of the Kingdom of England, which was in existence for around a thousand years...
  
  , and found Sheriffs by themselves.

• Before 1567 see High Sheriff of Essex
  High Sheriff of Essex
  The High Sheriff of Essex was an ancient High Sheriff title originating in the time of the Angles, not long after the invasion of the Kingdom of England, which was in existence for around a thousand years...
  
  
• 1567 Sir George Penruddock
• 1568 Rowland Lytton - Knebworth
• 1569 Henry Coningsby - North Mimms
• 1570 William Doddes
• 1571 Edward Baeshe
  Edward Baeshe
  Edward Baeshe or Bashe was an English naval administrator and politician.He was born the son of Richard Baeshe of Worcester.He worked under Thomas Cromwell, and in 1550 became surveyor-general of victuals for the navy...
  
   - Stansted (1st term)
• 1572 George Horsey - Digswell
• 1573 Thomas Leventhorpe - Shingey Hall
• 1574 Henry Cock - Broxbourne
• 1575 John Gill - Wyddial
• 1576 Thomas Bowles - Wallington
• 1577 Edmond Verney - Pendley
• 1578 Philip Boteler - Watton
• 1579 Charles Moryson - Cassiobury
• 1580 Thomas Docwra - Putteridge Bury
• 1581 Sir John Brocket - Hatfield
• 1582 Henry Coningsby - North Mimms
• 1583 Francis Heydon - The Grove, Watford
• 1584 Edward Baeshe
  Edward Baeshe
  Edward Baeshe or Bashe was an English naval administrator and politician.He was born the son of Richard Baeshe of Worcester.He worked under Thomas Cromwell, and in 1550 became surveyor-general of victuals for the navy...
  
   - Stansted (2nd term)
• 1585 Henry Capel - Hadham Hall
• 1586 Edward Pulter - Bradfield
• 1587 Thomas Leventhorpe
• 1588 Sir John Cutts
• 1589 Edmond Verney - Pendley
• 1590 Walter Mildmay - Pishobury
• 1591 Thomas Hanchet
• 1592 Arthur Capel - Hadham Hall
• 1593 John Leventhorpe - Shingey Hall
• 1594 Rowland Lytton - Knebworth
• 1595 Thomas Sadleir - Stansdon
• 1596 Ralph Coningsby - North Mimms
• 1597 Richard Spencer - Offley
• 1598 Thomas Pope Blount - Tittenhanger
• 1599 Robert Chester - Royston
• 1600 Thomas Hanchet
• 1601 Thomas Bowles - Wallington
• 1602 Sir Edward Denny
  Edward Denny, 1st Earl of Norwich
  Edward Denny, 1st Earl of Norwich , known as The Lord Denny between 1604 and 1627, was an English courtier, Member of Parliament and peer.-Life:...
  
   - Waltham Abbey

James I

• 1603 Sir Henry Boteler - Hatfield
• 1604 Sir George Peryent - Digswell
• 1605 Thomas Docwra - Puteridge Bury
• 1606 Sir Leonard Hide - Throcking
• 1607 Sir John Leventhorpe - Shingey Hall
• 1608 Nicholas Trot - Quickswood
• 1609 Ralph Sadleir - Standon
• 1610 Sir Richard Anderson - Pendley
• 1611 Sir Robert Boteler - Watton
• 1612 John Wild -
• 1613 William Franklyn
• 1614 Sir Thomas Dacres
• 1615 Sir Goddard Pemberton
• 1616 Lewis Pemberton - St Albans
• 1616 Thomas Newce - Hadham
• 1617 Edward Briscoe - Aldenham
• 1618 Thomas Read - Hatfield
• 1619 Sir Nicholas Hide - North Mimms
• 1620 Roger Pemberton - St Albans
• 1621 William Hale - King’s Walden
• 1622 Edward Newport - Pelham
• 1623 Sir Clement Scudamore - North Mimms
• 1624 Richard Sidley - Digswell

Commonwealth

• 1648 Rowland Hale
• 1654 Humfrey Shatcrosse of Hatfield
• 1654 Sir John Barrington, Bt
  Sir John Barrington, 3rd Baronet
  Sir John Barrington, 3rd Baronet was an English lawyer and politician.He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Barrington, 2nd Baronet and Francis Gobert, daughter of John Gobert. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1635, when called to the bar from Gray's Inn, Barrington was knighted at...
  
  
• 1658 Sir John Wittewrong, 1st Baronet

Charles II

• 1666 Sir Jonathan Keate, Bt
• 1670 Sir Thomas Byde, Kt
• 1671 Sir John Reade replaced by Samuel Reves
• 1675 Joshua Lowmarch
• 1675 Edward Chester Royston (replaced John Reade)
• 1678 Sir John Reade, Bt

William & Mary

• 1689 (Mar-Nov) Robert Harley of Brampton Bryan
• 1689 Thomas Shatterden - Hatfield  
• John Plumer - Blakesware
• 1690 Sir John Garrard - Lamer
• 1691 George Hadley - East Barnet
• 1692 Sir John Bucknall - Watford
• 1693 Sir James Read - Hatfield
• 1694 William Dyer - Newenham

William III

• 1695 Sir Thomas Rolt - Sacomb
• 1696 John Gape - St Albans
• 1697 John Billers - Thorley
• 1698 Thomas Auncel - Ickleford
• 1699 Henry Gore - Gilston
• 1700 George Nodes - Shephall
• 1701 Thomas Blackmore 

Anne

• 1702 Robert Hadsley - Munden
• 1703 Edmond Field - Stansted
• 1704 Philip Boteler - Watton
• 1705 Joseph Huntsman
• 1706 Barnard Halpenny
• 1707 Henry Houblon - London
• 1708 Richard Sheppard
• 1709 Sir Richard Houblon - London
• 1710 William Robinson Lytton - Knebworth then William Berners of Much Hadham
• 1711 Henry Ewer
• 1712 William Smith
• 1713 Charles Felton

George I

• 1714 Henry Long - Bayford
• 1715 John Duncomb
• 1716 William Bucknall
• 1717 Pulter Forester - Bradfield
• 1718 James Fleet - Tewin
• 1719 John Nichols
• 1720 Sir Charles Buck - Watford
• 1721 Edward Radcliffe - Hitchin
• 1722 Thomas Kentish - St Albans
• 1723 John Seer - Yardley
• 1724 Henry Sibley - Yardley
• Thomas Sibley
• 1725 Samuel Poynter - Kelshall
• 1726 Richard Warren - Tewin

George II

• 1727 Benedict Ithel - Hitchin
• 1729 Edward Searle
• John Turvin - Gilston
• 1730 Francis Goulston - Wyddial
  Wyddial
  Wyddial is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, near Buntingford. It is located at and lies due north of Greenwich on the Prime Meridian....
  
  
• 1731 Richard Chase
• 1732 Thomas Wooton
• 1733 William Freeman - Aspenden Hall
• 1734 Richard Tuach - Rickmersworth
• 1735 Thomas Rolt - Sacomb
• 1736 John Dean - Wormley
• 1737 Robert Plummer 
• 1738 William Gape - St Albans
• 1739 William Benn - West Mill
• 1740 William Shaw - Cheshunt
• 1741 Robert Hadsley - Jenningsbury
• 1742 Geo Carpenter - Redburn
• 1743 Thomas Ansell - Ickleford
• 1744 Richard Chase - Much Hadham
• 1745 Sir Conyers Jocelyn - Hyde Hall
• 1746 Charles Halsey - Great Gaddesden
• 1747 Edward Chester - Albury superseded by
• Henry Fotherley Whitfield - Rickmersworth
• 1748 William Janssen - Cheshunt
• 1749 Nicholson Calvert - Hunsdon House 
• 1750 John Cheshyre - Thundridgebury
• 1751 Thomas Whittewronge - Harpenden
• 1752 Benedict Ithel - Preston
• 1753 Caleb Lomax - Childwickbury
• 1754 Fitzwilliam Barrington - Lilley
• 1755 Giles Thornton Heysham - Paul’s Walden   
• 1756 John Turvin - Gilston
• 1757 Jacob Houblon - West Mill
• 1758 John Robinson Lytton - Knebworth
• 1759 Sir John Chapman
  Sir John Chapman, 2nd Baronet
  Sir John Chapman, 2nd Baronet was a British parliamentarian.He succeeded to the baronetcy in May 1737.He was elected at the 1741 general election as a Member of Parliament for Taunton, and held the seat until the 1741 general election, when he did not stand again...
  
   of Cockenhatch
• 1760 Benjamin Trueman - Hatfield

George III

• 1761 John Ashfordby - Cheshunt
• 1762 Henry Fotherley Whitfield - Rickmansworth
• 1763 John Cope Freeman - Abbots Langley
• 1764 David Williams - Sarratt
• 1765 Bibye Lake - St Margaret’s
• 1766 John Seare - Tring
• 1767 Samuel Whitbread - Bedwell Park
• 1768 Lionel Lyde, later Sir Lionel Lyde, 1st Baronet - Ayot St Lawrence
• 1769 Jeremiah Hadsley - Barkway
• 1770 Henry Green - Gaddesden Hoo
• 1771 George Prescott - Theobalds
• 1772 Samuel Moody - Watford
• 1773 John Dorrien - Berkhamsted St Peter’s
• 1774 Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet - Wormley Bury
• 1775 Richard Emmott - Goldings
• 1776 Thomas Harwood - Preston
• 1777 John Searancke - Hatfield
• 1778 Thomas Blackmore - Hunsdon
• 1779 Richard Baker - Hertingfordbury
• 1780 John Hunter - North Mimms
• 1781 Thomas Clutterbuck - Watford
• 1782 John Mickie - North Mimms
• 1783 Robert Machy - Tewin
• 1784 John Thomas Ellis - Wyddial Hall
• 1785 William Phillimore - Aldenham
• 1786 Jeremiah Milles - Pishiobury
• 1787 John Rooper - Berkhamsted
• 1788 Charles Bourchier - Shenley
• 1789 Drummond Smith - Tring Park
• 1790 Samuel Robert Gaussen - North Mimms 
• 1791 Matthew Raper - Ashlyns Hall
• 1792 James Bourchier - Shenley
• 1793 Sir George William Prescott, 1st Baronet of Theobalds
• 1794 Samuel Lightenhouse - Orford House
• 1795 James Harding - Tring
• 1796 John Sowerby - Lilley
• 1797 Sir John Saunders Sebright
  Sebright Baronets
  The Sebright Baronetcy, of Besford in the County of Worcester, is a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 20 December 1626 for Edward Sebright, High Sheriff of Worcestershire who later fought as a Royalist in the Civil War. The fourth Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for...
  
   - Beechwood
• 1798 Felix Calvert - Hunsdon House
• 1799 Archibald Paxton - Watford Place
• 1800 Justinian Casamajor - Potterells
• 1801 Thomas Fitzherbert - Shenley 
• 1802 Jacob Bosanquet - Broxbourne Park
• 1803 Henry Browne - North Mimms Place
• 1804 Edward Garrow - Totteridge
• 1805 Emilius Henry Delmé-Radcliffe - Hitchin Priory
• 1806 George Sullivan Marten - Sandridge Lodge
• 1807 George Caswell - Sacombe Park
• 1808 James Smith - Ashlyns Hall
• 1809 Edmund Darby - Aston House
• 1810 Thomas Haworth - Boreham Wood
• 1811 Robert Taylor - Tolmers
• 1812 John Currie - Essendon
• 1813 John Fam Timins - Aldenham
• 1814 Nicholas Segar Parry - Little Hadham
• 1815 Andrew Reid - Chipping Barnet
• 1816 Daniel Giles - Youngsbury, Ware
• 1817 Edmund Morris - Chorleywood
• 1818 George Palmer - Much Hadham
• 1819 Samuel Unwin Heathcote - Shephallbury

George IV

• 1820 John Earley Cook - Nunsbury
• 1821 Joseph Timperon - New Barnet
• 1822 Thomas Daniell - Little Berkhampstead
• 1823 Robert Sutton - Rossway, Northchurch
• 1824 Patrick Haydon - Colney Chapel
• 1825 Thomas Nash Kemble - Gubbins Park
• 1826 Sir George Duckett - Roydon
• 1827 Joseph Andrew Latour - Hexton
• 1828 Sir Culling Smith - Bedwell Park
• 1829 Charles Phelips - Briggins Park

William IV

• 1830 William Hale - King’s Walden
• 1831 Augustus Smith - Ashlyns Hall first appointed, replaced by Hon Thomas Robert Dimsdale, Baron Dimsdale - Camfield Place
• 1832 Robert Plumer Ward
  Robert Plumer Ward
  Robert Ward or from 1828 Robert Plumer Ward , novelist and politician, born in London, educated at Oxford, and called to the Bar 1790, held various political offices, and wrote some books on the law of nations; also three novels, Tremaine, or the Man of Refinement, full of prolix discussions; De...
  
   - Gilston Park
• 1833 George Jacob Bosanquet - Broxbourne Bury
• 1834 Wiliam Robert Phillimore - Newberries
• 1835 William Robert Baker - Bayfordbury
• 1836 William Blake - Danesbury

Victoria

• 1837 George Proctor - Bennington
• 1838 Claude George Thornton - Tewin
• 1839 Charles Benet Drake Gerard - Lamer Park 
• 1840 Charles Snell Chauncy - Little Munden
• 1841 Robert William Gaussen - Brookmans
• 1842 George Gould Morgan - Brickendonbury
• 1843 Charles John Dimsdale - Essendon Place
• 1844 Frederick Cass - Little Grove 
• 1845 Sir Henry Meux, 2nd Baronet - Theobalds Park
• 1846 Felix Calvert - Hunsdon House
• 1847 Humphrey Harper Burchell - Bushey Grange
• 1848 William Parker - Ware Park
• 1849 Abel Smith
  Abel Smith (1788-1859)
  Abel Smith was a longtime British Member of Parliament.He was the eighth child but eldest son of Samuel Smith, also a Member of Parliament, and nephew of Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington...
  
   - Woodhall Park
• 1850 Fulke Southwell Greville
  Fulke Greville-Nugent, 1st Baron Greville
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   - North Mimms Park
• 1851 William John Lysley
  William John Lysley
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   - Mymms
• 1852 Wynn Ellis - Ponsbourne Park
• 1853 Sir Thomas Gage Sebright
  Sebright Baronets
  The Sebright Baronetcy, of Besford in the County of Worcester, is a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 20 December 1626 for Edward Sebright, High Sheriff of Worcestershire who later fought as a Royalist in the Civil War. The fourth Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for...
  
   - Beechwood Park
• 1854 Robert Hanbury - Poles
• 1855 Nathaniel Hibbert - Munden
• 1856 William Joseph Myers - Porters
• 1857 William Reid - Codicote 
• 1858 William Wilshere
  William Wilshere
  William Wilshere was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1837 to 1847.Wilshire was a landed proprietor and banker of Hertford. He was elected Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth at the 1837 general election...
  
   - Welwyn
• 1859 Martin Hadsley Gosselin - Ware
• 1860 James Bentley - Cheshunt
• 1861 William Jones Loyd - Langleybury
  Langleybury
  Langleybury was a country house and estate in Hertfordshire, England situated 2 miles north of the town of Watford on a low hill above the valley of the River Gade.-Raymond 1711-1756:...
  
  
• 1862 John Hodgson - Gilston Park
• 1863 Samuel Richard Block - Barnet
• 1864 Sir Astley Paston Cooper
  Astley-Cooper Baronets
  The Cooper, later Paston-Cooper, later Astley-Cooper Baronetcy, of Gadebridge in the County of Hertford, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom...
  
   - Gadesbridge
• 1865 Foster Alleyne McGeachey - Shenley Hill
• 1866 Henry Heyman Toulmin
  Henry Hayman Toulmin
  Henry Hayman Toulmin was a wealthy British ship owner who became Justice of the Peace and High Sheriff of Hertfordshire, and then mayor of St Albans.-Early life:...
  
   - Childwickbury
• 1867 Charles Booth - Stanstead Abbotts
• 1868 Robert Pryor - Watford
• 1869 Robert Smith - Goldings 
• 1870 Unwin Unwin Heathcote - Shephallbury
• 1871 Charles Longman - Shendish
• 1872 Thomas Curtis - Great Berkhampstead
• 1873 HJ Smith - Bosanquet - Broxbournebury
• 1874 Sir John Gage Sebright
  Sebright Baronets
  The Sebright Baronetcy, of Besford in the County of Worcester, is a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 20 December 1626 for Edward Sebright, High Sheriff of Worcestershire who later fought as a Royalist in the Civil War. The fourth Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for...
  
   - Beechwood
• 1875 James Sydney Walker - Hunsdonbury
• 1876 John Gwyn Jeffreys
  John Gwyn Jeffreys
  John Gwyn Jeffreys was a British conchologist and malacologist.He was born in Swansea into a propertied Welsh family and educated at Swansea Grammar School. He went to London to qualify as a barrister, which he did. His greater passion however was for conchology...
  
   - Ware Priory
• 1877 David Carnegie - Watford
• 1878 Thomas Fowell Buxton - Ware
• 1879 Charles Butler - Hatfield
• 1880 Charles Cholmondely Hale - King’s Walden
• 1881 John Evans
  John Evans (archaeologist)
  Sir John Evans, KCB, FRS was an English archaeologist and geologist.-Biography:John Evans was the son of the Rev. Dr A. B. Evans, headmaster of Market Bosworth Grammar School, and was born at Britwell Court, Buckinghamshire...
  
   - Hemel Hempstead
• 1882 James William Carlile - Hertford
• 1883 Salisbury Baxendale - Ware
• 1884 Henry Hucks Gibbs
  Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham
  Henry Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham MA BA FGS FSA was a British banker, businessman and Conservative Party politician.Aldenham the son of George Henry Gibbs,...
  
   - Watford
• 1885 Sir Astley Paston-Cooper
  Astley-Cooper Baronets
  The Cooper, later Paston-Cooper, later Astley-Cooper Baronetcy, of Gadebridge in the County of Hertford, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom...
  
   - Gadebridge
• 1886 John Harry Eyres Parker - Ware Park
• 1887 Henry Wilson Demain-Saunders - Hertford
• 1888 William Bunce Greenfield - Flamsteadbury
• 1889 Joseph Grout Williams - Pendley Manor
• 1890 Hon Arthur Henry Holland-Hibbert
  Viscount Knutsford
  Viscount Knutsford, of Knutsford in the County Palatine of Chester, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1895 for the lawyer, Conservative politician and former Secretary of State for the Colonies, Henry Holland, 1st Baron Knutsford...
  
   - Munden
• 1891 Edmund Smith Hanbury - Poles, Ware
• 1892 Richard Benyon Croft - Ware
• 1893 Robert Barclay - Hoddesdon
• 1894 Edward Henry Loyd - Langleybury
  Langleybury
  Langleybury was a country house and estate in Hertfordshire, England situated 2 miles north of the town of Watford on a low hill above the valley of the River Gade.-Raymond 1711-1756:...
  
  
• 1895 Edward Salvin Bowlby - Gilston Park
• 1896 Percival Bosanquet - Ponfield
• 1897 John Henry Buxton - Hunsdon Bury
• 1898 Charles Thomas Part - St Albans
• 1899 Frederick Henry Norman
  Frederick Henry Norman
  Frederick Henry Norman was an English merchant banker and a director of the merchant bank Brown, Shipley & Co.. The Norman family have a long history in English banking....
  
   - Much Hadham
• 1900 Sir George Faudel-Phillips
  Faudel-Phillips Baronets
  The Faudel-Phillips Baronetcy, of Grosvenor Gardens in the Parish of St George Hanover Square in the County of London and of Queen's Gardens, West Brighton, in the County of Sussex, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 27 August 1897 for George Faudel-Phillips,...
  
   - Hertford

Edward VII

• 1901 Major-Gen Apsley Cherry-Garrard - Wheathampstead 
• 1902 Evelyn Simpson - Baldock
• 1903 Henry Tylston Hodgson - Harpenden
• 1904 Sir Edgar Reginald Sebright
  Sebright Baronets
  The Sebright Baronetcy, of Besford in the County of Worcester, is a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 20 December 1626 for Edward Sebright, High Sheriff of Worcestershire who later fought as a Royalist in the Civil War. The fourth Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for...
  
   - Beechwood
• 1905 Thomas Fenwick Harrison - King’s Walden Bury
• 1906 Hellier Gosselin-Grimshawe - Bengeo Hall
• 1907 Benjamin Samuel Faudel-Phillips
  Faudel-Phillips Baronets
  The Faudel-Phillips Baronetcy, of Grosvenor Gardens in the Parish of St George Hanover Square in the County of London and of Queen's Gardens, West Brighton, in the County of Sussex, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 27 August 1897 for George Faudel-Phillips,...
  
   - Hertford
• 1908 Arthur Salvin Bowlby - Gilston Park
• 1909 Edward Ernest Pearson - Brickendonbury
• 1910 Sir Alfred Reynolds - Ayot Bury

George V

• 1911 Major Richard Page Croft - Ware
• 1912 Maurice George Carr Glyn - Hadham
• 1913 The Hon Herbert Cokayne Gibbs
  Herbert Gibbs, 1st Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon
  Herbert Cokayne Gibbs, 1st Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon , was a British businessman.Hunsdon was the fourth son of Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham, and Louisa Anne Adams, and was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge...
  
   - Briggens, Nr Ware
• 1914 Lewis Evans
  Lewis Evans (collector)
  Lewis Evans was an English businessman and scientific instrument collector.Lewis Evans was the son of Sir John Evans, an archaeologist, and younger brother of the more famous archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans who excavated Knossos in Crete. He studied chemistry at University College London and...
  
   - Watford
• 1915 Henry William Clinton Baker - Bayfordbury
• 1916 Walter Reynolds - St Albans
• 1917 The Hon Charles Robert Southwell Baron Dimsdale - Meesden
• 1918 Capt Hubert Laurie Bullen - Hatfield
• 1919 Major-Gen Sir Charles Haddon - Great Berkhamsted
• 1920 John Ramsay Drake - St Albans
• 1921 Sir Arthur Cory-Wright - Welwyn
• 1922 Col Sir Edward Hildred Carlile - Hertford
• 1923 Capt George Strachan Pawle - Widford
• 1924 BrigGen Sir Brodie Henderson
  Brodie Henderson (engineer)
  Sir Brodie Haldane Henderson was a British civil engineer. Henderson was primarily a railway engineer who worked for many railroad corporations across South America, Australasia and Africa. He was the consultant for the Dona Ana Bridge which, when it was built in 1935, was the longest railway...
  
   - Little Berkhamsted
• 1925 Sir Charles Alexander Nall-Cain
  Charles Nall-Cain, 1st Baron Brocket
  Charles Alexander Nall-Cain, 1st Baron Brocket , born Charles Alexander Cain, was a British businessman and philanthropist....
  
   - Hatfield
• 1926 Sir Alexander William Lewis - Essendon
• 1927 Lt Col Osmond McMullen - Ware
• 1928 George Richard Smith-Bosanquet - Broxbourne
• 1929 Capt Everard Martin-Smith - Codicote
• 1930 Charles Morland Agnew
  Charles Morland Agnew
  Charles Morland Agnew OBE , was a British art dealer and philanthropist.-Early life:He was the second son of William Agnew and his wife Mary née Kenworthy. He was eductaed at Rugby School before he matriculated to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1874...
  
   - Croxley Green
• 1931 Sir Walter Lawrence - Sawbridgeworth
• 1932 Major John Fenwick Harrison - King’s Waldenbury
• 1933 Sir Lionel Faudel-Philips
  Faudel-Phillips Baronets
  The Faudel-Phillips Baronetcy, of Grosvenor Gardens in the Parish of St George Hanover Square in the County of London and of Queen's Gardens, West Brighton, in the County of Sussex, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 27 August 1897 for George Faudel-Phillips,...
  
   - Hertford
• 1934 Capt Robert Humphrey Haslam - Berkhamsted

George VI

• 1937 Arthur Edwin Cutforth - Sawbridgeworth
• 1938 Henry Fowell Buxton - Ware
• 1939 Capt Sir Cecil Gustavus Newman - Royston
• 1940 Capt Reginald Henry Abel-Smith - Hatfield
• 1941 Major Albert Pam - Broxbourne
• 1942 The Rt Hon Sir Felix Cassel
  Felix Cassel
  Sir Felix Maximilian Schoenbrunn Cassel, 1st Baronet, PC, QC was a British barrister who served as Judge Advocate-General from 1915 to 1934....
  
   - Luton
• 1943 Col William Hilton Briggs - Watford
• 1944 Michael Bruce Urquhart Dewar - Hitchin
• 1945 Capt Sir Humphrey Edmund de Trafford
  Sir Humphrey de Trafford, 4th Baronet
  Sir Humphrey Edmund de Trafford, 4th Baronet MC, DL was a prominent English racehorse owner, and the grandfather of Brigadier Andrew Henry Parker Bowles. He was the son of Sir Humphrey de Trafford, 3rd Baronet, and Violet Alice Maud Franklin.-Early life:Humphrey was educated at The Oratory School...
  
   - Royston
• 1946 Sir Patrick Ashley Cooper - Hexton
• 1947 Capt Francis Pawle - Ware
• 1948 Brig Edward Henry Beddington - Much Hadham
• 1949 Brig Walter Hugh Crosland - Little Berkhamsted
• 1950 The Hon David Bowes-Lyon
  David Bowes-Lyon
  Sir David Bowes-Lyon KCVO was the sixth son of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and Cecilia Nina Cavendish-Bentinck...
  
   - St Paul’s Walden Bury
• 1951 Col Sir William Henry Dyke Acland - Welwyn

Elizabeth II

• 1952 Charles Maynard - Potters Bar
  Potters Bar
  Potters Bar is a town in the Hertsmere borough of Hertfordshire, England, located north of Central London. In 2001 it had a population of 21,618....
  
  
• 1953 Thomas Abel Smith - Hertford
  Hertford
  Hertford is the county town of Hertfordshire, England, and is also a civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district of the county. Forming a civil parish, the 2001 census put the population of Hertford at about 24,180. Recent estimates are that it is now around 28,000...
  
  
• 1954 Col John Maitland - Welwyn
  Welwyn
  Welwyn is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The parish also includes the villages of Digswell and Oaklands. It is sometimes called Old Welwyn to distinguish it from the newer settlement of Welwyn Garden City, about a mile to the south.-History:Situated in the valley of the...
  
  
• 1955 Lt Col Robert McMullen - Buntingford
  Buntingford
  Buntingford is a small market town and civil parish in the district of East Hertfordshire and county of Hertfordshire in England. It lies on the River Rib and on the Roman road Ermine Street. As a result of its location, it grew mainly as a staging post with many coaching inns and has an 18th...
  
  
• 1956 Sir William Cooper - Berkhamsted
  Berkhamsted
  -Climate:Berkhamsted experiences an oceanic climate similar to almost all of the United Kingdom.-Castle:...
  
  
• 1957 Charles Wentworth-Stanley - Sawbridgeworth
  Sawbridgeworth
  Sawbridgeworth is a small, mainly residential, town and also a civil parish in Hertfordshire, England.- Location :Sawbridgeworth is four miles south of Bishop's Stortford, twelve miles east of Hertford and nine miles north of Epping. It lies on the A1184 and has a railway station that links to...
  
  
• 1958 John Buxton - Wareside
  Wareside
  Wareside is a small village and civil parish in the East Hertfordshire District, in the county of Hertfordshire. It is about 3 miles away from the town of Ware and the large town of Hertford Nearby villages include Widford, Hertfordshire, Babbs Green and Bakers End...
  
  
• 1959 Lt Col Francis Fremantle - Hertford
  Hertford
  Hertford is the county town of Hertfordshire, England, and is also a civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district of the county. Forming a civil parish, the 2001 census put the population of Hertford at about 24,180. Recent estimates are that it is now around 28,000...
  
  
• 1960 Brigadier Richard Hanbury - Braughing
  Braughing
  Braughing is a village and civil parish, between the rivers Quin and Rib, in the non-metropolitan district of East Hertfordshire, part of the English county of Hertfordshire, England...
  
  
• 1961 Maj Adrian Hadden-Paton - Berkhamsted
  Berkhamsted
  -Climate:Berkhamsted experiences an oceanic climate similar to almost all of the United Kingdom.-Castle:...
  
  
• 1962 Arthur Proctor - Harlow
  Harlow
  Harlow is a new town and local government district in Essex, England. It is located in the west of the county and on the border with Hertfordshire, on the Stort Valley, The town is near the M11 motorway and forms part of the London commuter belt.The district has a current population of 78,889...
  
  
• 1963 Douglas Cory-Wright - Harpenden
  Harpenden
  Harpenden is a town in Hertfordshire, England.The town's total population is just under 30,000.-Geography and administration:There are two civil parishes: Harpenden and Harpenden Rural....
  
  
• 1964 Leopold Seymour - Hadham
• 1965 Lucius Thompson-McCausland
  Lucius Thompson-McCausland
  Lucius Perronet Thompson-McCausland was a British economist who took part in the Bretton Woods conference and was a Treasury adviser during the sterling crisis in the 1960s....
  
   - Hertford
  Hertford
  Hertford is the county town of Hertfordshire, England, and is also a civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district of the county. Forming a civil parish, the 2001 census put the population of Hertford at about 24,180. Recent estimates are that it is now around 28,000...
  
  
• 1966 Sir Aubrey Burke - Bovingdon
  Bovingdon
  Bovingdon is a large village in the Chiltern Hills, in Hertfordshire, England, four miles south-west of Hemel Hempstead and it is a civil parish within the local authority area of Dacorum...
  
  
• 1967 Ronald Pilkington - Stanstead Abbotts
  Stanstead Abbotts
  Stanstead Abbotts is a village and civil parish in the district of East Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, England. At the 2001 census the parish had a population of 1,983...
  
  
• 1968 James Ashley Cooper - Hexton
• 1969 Julian Martin Smith - Berkhamsted
  Berkhamsted
  -Climate:Berkhamsted experiences an oceanic climate similar to almost all of the United Kingdom.-Castle:...
  
  
• 1970 Sir Frederick Seebohm - Chapmore End
• 1971 Lt Col James Thompson - Stevenage
  Stevenage
  Stevenage is a town and borough in Hertfordshire, England. It is situated to the east of junctions 7 and 8 of the A1, and is between Letchworth Garden City to the north, and Welwyn Garden City to the south....
  
  
• 1972 David Wentworth-Stanley - Munden
• 1973 Charles Wentworth-Stanley - Sawbridgeworth
  Sawbridgeworth
  Sawbridgeworth is a small, mainly residential, town and also a civil parish in Hertfordshire, England.- Location :Sawbridgeworth is four miles south of Bishop's Stortford, twelve miles east of Hertford and nine miles north of Epping. It lies on the A1184 and has a railway station that links to...
  
  
• 1974 Maj The Hon Thomas Edward Baron Dimsdale MC DL - Barkway
  Barkway
  Barkway is a long-established village and civil parish in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England, about five miles south-east of Royston,35 miles from London and 15 miles from the centre of Cambridge....
  
  
• 1975 Sir Simon Bowes-Lyon
  Simon Alexander Bowes-Lyon
  Sir Simon Alexander Bowes-Lyon KCVO is a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and was Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire from 1986 to 2007. He was created a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in The Queen's Birthday Honours List 2005....
  
   - St Paul's Walden
  St Paul's Walden
  St Paul's Walden is a village about five miles south of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, England. The civil parish of St Paul's Walden also includes the village of Whitwell...
  
  
• 1976 Peter Compton Hamilton-Spencer-Smith of Hitchin
  Hitchin
  Hitchin is a town in Hertfordshire, England, with an estimated population of 30,360.-History:Hitchin is first noted as the central place of the Hicce people mentioned in a 7th century document, the Tribal Hidage. The tribal name is Brittonic rather than Old English and derives from *siccā, meaning...
  
  
• 1977 Eric Marsden - Great Gaddesden
  Great Gaddesden
  Great Gaddesden is a village and civil parish in Dacorum Hundred in Hertfordshire, England. It is located in the Chiltern Hills, north of Hemel Hempstead. The parish borders to Flamstead, Hemel Hempstead, Nettleden and Little Gaddesden and also to Studham in Bedfordshire.The Church St. John the...
  
  
• 1978 Martin Acland JP DL - High Cross
• 1979 Edmund Leigh Grundy - Royston
  Royston, Hertfordshire
  Royston is a town and civil parish in the District of North Hertfordshire and county of Hertfordshire in England.It is situated on the Greenwich Meridian, which brushes the towns western boundary, and at the northernmost apex of the county on the same latitude of towns such as Milton Keynes and...
  
  
• 1980 Michael Meredith Hardy - Baldock
  Baldock
  Baldock is a historic market town in the local government district of North Hertfordshire in the ceremonial county of Hertfordshire, England where the River Ivel rises. It lies north of London, southeast of Bedford, and north northwest of the county town of Hertford...
  
  
• 1981 Sir Gerard Sigismund Newman - Royston
  Royston, Hertfordshire
  Royston is a town and civil parish in the District of North Hertfordshire and county of Hertfordshire in England.It is situated on the Greenwich Meridian, which brushes the towns western boundary, and at the northernmost apex of the county on the same latitude of towns such as Milton Keynes and...
  
  
• 1982 John Christopher McMullen - Westmill, Buntingford
• 1983 Lady Stuart-Smith JP, DL (Joan) - Abbots Langley
  Abbots Langley
  Abbots Langley is a large village and civil parish in the English county of Hertfordshire. It is an old settlement and is mentioned in the Domesday Book. Economically the village is closely linked to Watford and was formerly part of the Watford Rural District...
  
  
• 1984 Ralph Abel Smith - Woodhall Park
• 1985 Gerald Chastel de Boinville MC TD - Walkern
  Walkern
  Walkern is a village and civil parish in East Hertfordshire. It is located on the River Beane about two miles from Stevenage, and is noted as the home of Jane Wenham, who was in 1712 the last woman in England to be convicted of witchcraft...
  
  
• 1986 Antony Woodall - Great Hormead
• 1987 Harry Bott MBE DL - Benington
  Benington, Hertfordshire
  Benington is a village and civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England, about four miles east of Stevenage and 35 miles north of London...
  
  
• 1988 John Lockhart Wood JP DL - Great Gaddesden
  Great Gaddesden
  Great Gaddesden is a village and civil parish in Dacorum Hundred in Hertfordshire, England. It is located in the Chiltern Hills, north of Hemel Hempstead. The parish borders to Flamstead, Hemel Hempstead, Nettleden and Little Gaddesden and also to Studham in Bedfordshire.The Church St. John the...
  
  
• 1989 The Honorable Mrs Blount (Susan) - Barkway
• 1990 Captain Charles Barclay - Brent Pelham
  Brent Pelham
  Brent Pelham is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England. The village is one of the Pelhams, along with Stocking Pelham and Furneaux Pelham. Near St Mary's church are ancient stocks which could accommodate up to three people at once. A derelict windmill survives in the village....
  
  
• 1991 Richard Edmonds - Micklefield Hall
• 1992 Henry Buxton DL - Wareside
• 1993 Ted Harvey - Bishops Stortford
• 1994 Lady Staughton JP DL (Joanna) - Sarratt
  Sarratt
  Sarratt is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, on the border of the county with Buckinghamshire. Sarratt is near Chesham, and the River Chess passes through the village....
  
  
• 1995 Nicholas Halsey
  Nicholas Guy Halsey
  Nicholas Guy Halsey TD, DL, FRICS is the heir to the Halsey Baronetcy.Halsey is the son of Lieutenant Colonel Guy Marsden Halsey, TD , the second son of the Reverend Frederick Halsey and Audrey Katherine, née Marsden....
  
   TD DL - Gaddesden Row
• 1996 Robert Edward Dimsdale DL - Barkway
• 1997 Richard Walduck OBE JP DL - Hatfield
  Hatfield, Hertfordshire
  Hatfield is a town and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England in the borough of Welwyn Hatfield. It has a population of 29,616, and is of Saxon origin. Hatfield House, the home of the Marquess of Salisbury, is the nucleus of the old town...
  
  
• 1998 The Hon Richard Oakley Pleydell-Bouverie
  William Pleydell-Bouverie, 7th Earl of Radnor
  William Pleydell-Bouverie, 7th Earl of Radnor, KG, KCVO was born on 18 December 1895 and died in 1968. He was the son of Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 6th Earl of Radnor and Julian Eleanor Adelaide Balfour....
  
   DL - Peter’s Green
• 1999 Harry Morton Neal CBE - Sarratt
  Sarratt
  Sarratt is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, on the border of the county with Buckinghamshire. Sarratt is near Chesham, and the River Chess passes through the village....
  
  
• 2000 The Revd Teddy Faure Walker DL - Sandon
• 2001 Christopher Maurice Laing OBE DL - Ayot St Lawrence
  Ayot St Lawrence
  Ayot St Lawrence is a small village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, between Harpenden and Welwyn. There are several other Ayots in the area, including Ayot Green and Ayot St Peter....
  
  
• 2002 The Countess of Verulam
  John Grimston, 7th Earl of Verulam
  John Duncan Grimston, 7th Earl of Verulam , known as the Honourable John Grimston until 1973, is a British peer.He succeeded to the title of Earl of Verulam in 1973 on the death of his father....
  
   - St Albans
  St Albans
  St Albans is a city in southern Hertfordshire, England, around north of central London, which forms the main urban area of the City and District of St Albans. It is a historic market town, and is now a sought-after dormitory town within the London commuter belt...
  
  
• 2003 The Lady Lyell - (Susanna) Markyate
  Markyate
  Markyate is a village and civil parish in north-west Hertfordshire close to the border with Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire.-Geography:Having a number of former names, including Markyate Street and Mergyate, it has been a part of all three counties since it was first founded as the county...
  
  
• 2004 Lady Nichols (Shelagh) - Bucks Hill
• 2005 David McMullen DL - Westmill
• 2006 William Tudor John DL - Willian
• 2007 Howard Guard - Radlett
  Radlett
  Radlett is a small town in the county of Hertfordshire between St Albans and Borehamwood on Watling Street with a population of approximately 8,000. It is located in the council district of Hertsmere and is covered by two wards, Aldenham East and Aldenham West...
  
  
• 2008 Paul David Cherry - Weston
• 2009 Jane Wentworth-Stanley - Great Munden
• 2010 Gerald Michael Nolan Corbett
  Gerald Corbett
  Gerald Corbett is a businessman in the United Kingdom. Since 2005 he has been Chairman of SSL International plc and Britvic plc. Britvic is one of the two leading soft drinks companies in Britain whose major brands include Robinsons, Tango, Pepsi, Fruit Shoot and J20...
  
  
• 2011 Lord Charles Cecil, Hatfield
  Hatfield, Hertfordshire
  Hatfield is a town and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England in the borough of Welwyn Hatfield. It has a population of 29,616, and is of Saxon origin. Hatfield House, the home of the Marquess of Salisbury, is the nucleus of the old town...
  
  

• 2012 nominee The Hon. Mrs Arabella Clare Stuart-Smith, Bedmond
  Bedmond
  Bedmond is a village in Hertfordshire, England.Bedmond is the birthplace of Nicholas Breakspear, the only Englishman to ever be Pope. Nicholas Breakspear was born at Bedmond Farm around 1100 AD, and the site where his home stood is marked by a plaque....
  
  , Abbots Langley
  Abbots Langley
  Abbots Langley is a large village and civil parish in the English county of Hertfordshire. It is an old settlement and is mentioned in the Domesday Book. Economically the village is closely linked to Watford and was formerly part of the Watford Rural District...
  
  
• 2013 nominee Viscountess Trenchard
  Hugh Trenchard, 3rd Viscount Trenchard
  Hugh Trenchard, 3rd Viscount Trenchard DL is a British soldier and businessman. In 1987, he succeeded to his father's titles...
  
  , Standon
  Standon, Hertfordshire
  Standon is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire. The parish includes the adjoining village of Puckeridge. The village church of St Mary has Saxon origins with much Victorian restoration.The Prime Meridian passes to the west of Standon....
  
  , Ware