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• 1571: Hugh Trevanyon ^[1]

• 1586: Richard Carew ^[2]

• 1650: John Ellyott (discharged) and then John Lampen^[3]
• 1652: Stephen Lobb^[4]

• 1661: Pearse Edgcumbe^[5]

• 1665: Sir Joseph Tredenham^[6]

• 1680: John Vivian of Trewan ^[7].

• 1685: Richard Edgcombe^[8]

• 1741: William Lemon^[9]

• 1771 –1772: Sir John Call ^[10]

• 1779 Thomas Vyvyan ^[7]

• 1792 – 1793: Davies Gilbert ^[11]

• 1798: James Buller^[12]

• 1799: Edmund John Glynn^[13]

• 1802: Thomas Carlyon^[14]

• 1807: Sir William Pratt Call, 2nd Bt. of Whiteford, Cornwall

• 1810: George Clement Boase^[15]

• 1817: William Arundell Harris^[16]

• 1824: J. S. Enys^[17]

• 1837: John Basset

• 1838 – 1839: Joseph Treffrey ^[18]

• 1840: Sir Richard Rawlinson Vyvyan, eighth baronet (1800–1879)^[19]

• 1847: Nicholas Kendall ^[20]

• 1849: Sir Samuel Thomas Spry

• 1851: William Williams, 1st Baronet of Tregullow^[21]

• 1856: Sir William Berkeley Call, 3rd Bt.^[22]

• 1866: John Thomas Henry Peter^[23]

• 1876: Francis Gilbert Enys^[24]

• 1897: F. L. Barratt ^[25]

• 1898: Sir Robert Harvey ^[26]

• 1905: Richard Carlyon Coode^[27]

• 1910: F. B. Howell^[28]

• 1911: Henry Harcourt Williams (1869 - 1927) ^[29]

• 1912: Edward Hain ^[30]

• 1915: Charles Hawkins Hext, of Trebah^[31]

• 1921: John De Cressy Treffry^[32]

• 1950: Sir Bernard Rawlings^[33]

• 1980: Gerald Pawle^[34]

• 1983: Elizabeth Alison Johnstone^[35]

• 1987–1988: Alice Lennox-Boyd, Viscountess Boyd of Merton^[36]

• 1988–1989: Diana Colville

• 1991: David Treffry OBE (1926-2000) ^[37]

• 1996–1997: Jill Trench Fox^[38]

• 2000: Lady Frances Barbara Molyneux Banham

• 1999: Lieutenant Commander Nicholas John Trefusis

• 2001: James Michael Williams

• 2003: Mrs Judith Ann Coode Appointed from 15 March 2003 (London Gazette).

• 2003: Christopher Perkins ^[39] Appointed 14 March 2003 (London Gazette)

• 2004: James St Aubyn ^[40] He was appointed from 12 March 2004 (London Gazette)

• 2005– 2006: Peter Hodgson Hodgson was appointed 11 March 2005 (London Gazette)^[41]

• 2006– 2007: Mrs Louella Hanbury-Tenison Appointed 14 March 2006 (London Gazette) ^[42]
• 2007– 2008: Evelyn Boscawen

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2. ^ http://www.classic-literature.co.uk/british-authors/16th-century/richard-carew/
3. ^ 'House of Commons Journal Volume 6: 28 January 1650', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 6: 1648-1651 (1802), pp. 350-51. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=25829. Date accessed: 11 September 2006.: The Question being propounded, That John Elyott Esquire be discharged from being High Sheriff for the County of Cornwall; and that the House do proceed to nominate another, in his room; The Question being put, That that Question be now put; It passed with the Affirmative. And so the main Question being put; It was Resolved, That John Elyott Esquire be discharged from being High Sheriff of the County of Cornwall: And that the House do proceed to nominate another, in his room. Resolved, That John Lampen, of Linkenhorne, Esquire, be constituted and appointed to be High Sheriff of the County of Cornwall for this present Year: And that the Lords Commissioners for the Great Seal do issue a Commission to him to be High Sheriff of the said County accordingly.
4. ^ Richard L. Greaves, ‘Lobb, Stephen (d. 1699)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 11 Sept 2006
5. ^ [2]
6. ^ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kayhin/hist.html
7. ^ ^{a b} http://www.trewan-hall.co.uk/history.html Trewan History
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9. ^ [4]
10. ^ D. L. Prior, ‘Call, Sir John, first baronet (1732–1801)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 11 Sept 2006
11. ^ David Philip Miller, ‘Gilbert [Giddy], Davies (1767–1839)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 11 Sept 2006
12. ^ [5]
13. ^ http://www.holmesacourt.org/d2/i0001166.htm
14. ^ Cornwall CRO [6]
15. ^ http://www.morrablibrary.co.uk/some_history_from_the_morrab_lib.htm
16. ^ http://www.marjon.ac.uk/cornish-history/penhallowpeters/penhallow.pdf#search=%22%22high%20sheriff%22%20cornwall%22
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18. ^ Jack Simmons, ‘Treffry , Joseph Thomas (bap. 1782, d. 1850)’, rev. Edmund Newell, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 11 Sept 2006
19. ^ W. P. Courtney, ‘Vyvyan, Sir Richard Rawlinson, eighth baronet (1800–1879)’, rev. Rita M. Gibbs, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 11 Sept 2006
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21. ^ http://thepeerage.com/p3704.htm#i37034 Sir William Williams, First Baronet Williams of Tregulow (August 3, 1791 - March 24, 1870 and http://www.page-net.com/swansea.localhistory/llansamlet/pages/worklist.htm. He is not to be confused with another Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet of Angelsey
22. ^ [http://www.thepeerage.com/p11817.htm Peerage.com
23. ^ http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC64053290&id=NNdkxHnE8SgC&
24. ^ Enys papers at Cornwall Record Office [9]
25. ^ http://www.luxsoft.demon.co.uk/sts/nlet1999.html
26. ^ http://www.projects.ex.ac.uk/cornishlatin/Sirrobertharvey.htm
27. ^ Cornwall CRO [10]
28. ^ [11]
29. ^ Williams family records in Cornwall CRO [12]
30. ^ http://west-penwith.org.uk/hain.htm
31. ^ Cornwall Record Office: Document ref. no. D/R/157 Photograph of Sheriff's Coach with driver, footmen and policeman at Bodmin assizes. Charles Hawkins Hext, sheriff Date: 1915.
32. ^ http://www.a1tourism.com/uk/penarwyn.html
33. ^ Richard Hill, ‘Rawlings, Sir (Henry) Bernard Hughes (1889–1962)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 11 Sept 2006
34. ^ http://www.hayletowncouncil.net/mayoralty_of_hayle.htm
35. ^ [[13]
36. ^ http://thepeerage.com/p7099.htm#i70988 Peerage.com reference
37. ^ http://www.al-bab.com/bys/obits/treffry.htm
38. ^ http://thepeerage.com/p3932.htm#i39320 Birthdate, Marrriages and children in Peerage.com
39. ^ http://www.ncdc.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=7055]
40. ^ http://www.arqiva.com/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.85
41. ^ http://www.falmouth.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_contact&task=view&contact_id=78&Itemid=218
42. ^ http://www.highsheriffs.com/SHR03.HTM Source: Website of the High Sheriff's Association] and [14] and [15]

• High Sheriff

• Duchy of Cornwall - The Duchy claims the right to choose High Sheriffs each year, rather than the Privy Council, chaired by the Queen.