Sentence examples for high sheriff from inspiring English sources
Southerners call him the "high sheriff".
He then became high sheriff in Bedfordshire in 1773.
The monarch appoints a lord lieutenant and a high sheriff to represent each geographic county.
The high sheriff was probably the single most powerful person in the political county system".
High Sheriff Frank J. Kinney of New Haven said he was disappointed.
Ms. Foster believes the new high sheriff purchased his home from Joy.
MORITA KEIZO, Plff. in Err., v. WILLIAM HENRY, High Sheriff of the Territory of Hawaii.
Then, as now, supporting the Crown and the judiciary were central elements of his role as High Sheriff.
Anthony Fortescue was the High Sheriff of Cornwall, a Royal appointment made annually, dating back to Saxon times.
Colonel Edward Thomas Bolitho, Lord-Lieutenant of Cornwall and former High Sheriff, said, "Anthony Fortescue played an important role in Cornish life for many years.
During the last century the estate had passed to Anthony Fortescue's great uncle, George Fortescue, just before the war, thence to Anthony's father, Captain Desmond Fortescue, appointed High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1966.
