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2 unusual facts about High Sheriff of Berkshire


Chaddleworth

The house was the home of the Tipping family for many generations — including Bartholomew Tipping IV and Bartholomew Tipping VII, both High Sheriff of Berkshire — and now of their descendents, the Wroughtons.

Fifield, Berkshire

Sir John Norreys of Fifield House (1547?–1612), son of the above and High Sheriff of Berkshire.


Ebenezer Maitland

He was appointed Sheriff of Berkshire for 1825–26 and Sheriff of Breconshire for 1831–32.

Hugh de Bocland

Before the death of William Rufus, he was already High Sheriff of Berkshire and he is stated in the Abingdon Chronicle to have been one of the persons who profited by the unjust transactions of Modbert, whom the king appointed to administer the affairs of the monastery in the interest of the royal revenues, during the period when the office of abbot was vacant.

Jerome Knapp Junior

In 1758, Jerome had married Sarah the daughter and eventual heiress of George Noyes of Soutcote in Berkshire and Andover in Hampshire and his wife, Anne, the eldest daughter of Charles May of Basingstoke also in Hampshire and his wife, Anne, sister and heiress of William Noake, the High Sheriff of Berkshire, and sister and heiress of Daniel May of Sulhamstead House also in Berkshire.

Mount baronets

Mount was a Territorial Army officer, High Sheriff of Berkshire, a Deputy Lieutenant of the same county and grandfather to David Cameron.

Odney

This fine mid-18th century country house was once rented by Colonel Francis Ricardo, the first car owner in Cookham, who was High Sheriff of Berkshire in the early 1900s and supposedly the inspiration for Kenneth Grahame's Toad, in the Wind in the Willows.


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