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High Sheriff of Dorset is in High Sheriff.
In 1445 Robert Capps was appointed High Sheriff of Dorset and High Sheriff of Somerset.
After 1494 Edward Redman Lord Harewood (age 39) was appointed High Sheriff of Dorset.
In 1519 John Bourchier 2nd Earl Bath (age 20) was appointed High Sheriff of Dorset and High Sheriff of Somerset.
In 1528 John Russell 1st Earl Bedford (age 43) was appointed High Sheriff of Dorset.
In 1548 John Thynne (age 33) was appointed High Sheriff of Dorset and High Sheriff of Somerset.
In 1567 Maurice Berkeley (age 61) was appointed High Sheriff of Dorset and High Sheriff of Somerset.
In 1597 Thomas Freke (age 33) was appointed High Sheriff of Dorset.
In 1611 Thomas Freke (age 47) was appointed High Sheriff of Dorset.
In 1612 John Melbury Sampford Strangeways (age 26) was appointed High Sheriff of Dorset.
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
In January 1636 John Freke (age 45) was appointed High Sheriff of Dorset which office he held until Oct 1636.
In 1772 John Smith 1st Baronet (age 27) was appointed High Sheriff of Dorset.
In 1800 Richard Erle Drax Grosvenor (age 37) was appointed High Sheriff of Dorset.
In 1817 William Oglander 6th Baronet (age 48) was appointed High Sheriff of Dorset.
John Melbury Sampford Strangeways was appointed High Sheriff of Dorset.