High Sheriff of West Yorkshire

The High Sheriff of West Yorkshire is a current High Sheriff title which has existed since 1974, the holder is changed annually every March. For around 1,000 years the entire area of Yorkshire was covered by a single Sheriff of Yorkshire. After the Local Government Act 1972 the office of Sheriff was changed to High Sheriff and was split to cover several newly created counties, including West Yorkshire.

Below is a list of the high sheriffs for West Yorkshire.

List of High Sheriffs

 * 1974–1975 Sir William Peter Bulmer
 * 1975–1976 George Francis Lane Fox
 * 1976–1977 Michael Edmund Lyon
 * 1977–1978 David Gaunt
 * 1978–1979 John Malcolm Barr
 * 1979–1980 Stephen Gerald Beaumont
 * 1980–1981 Robert German Owthwaite
 * 1981–1982 Charles Miller Fenton
 * 1982–1983 David Fearnley
 * 1983–1984 Elizabeth Mary Whitaker
 * 1984–1985 Stuart Alan Barr
 * 1985–1986 John Lyles
 * 1986–1987 Yvonne Brenda Jackson
 * 1987–1988 George Cooke Armitage
 * 1988–1989 John Richard Marshall Roscoe
 * 1989–1990 Victor Hugo Watson
 * 1990–1991 Peter John Dixon Marshall
 * 1991–1992 Israel Arnold Ziff
 * 1992–1993 David Humphrey Boyle
 * 1993–1994 Geoffrey Flockton Armitage
 * 1994–1995 Charles Wilfred David Sutcliffe
 * 1995–1996 Edward Neil Pullan
 * 1996–1997 John Stephen Behrens
 * 1997–1998 Frederick Thomas Benson Jowitt
 * 1998–1999 John James Edward Brennan
 * 1999–2000 Peter Arthur Hillard Hartley
 * 2000–2001 Frank Ramsey Fenton
 * 2001–2002 John Stoddart-Scott
 * 2002–2003 John D. Jackson
 * 2003–2004 Patrick Dent
 * 2004–2005 James Barker
 * 2005–2006 Tim Hare
 * 2006–2007 Roger Frank Dixon Marshall
 * 2007–2008 Gay Hartley
 * 2008–2009 Roger G. Bowers
 * 2009–2010 Jeremy John Burton
 * 2010–2011 Richard Robert Clough
 * 2011–2012 Anthony E. Grant
 * 2012–2013 Stephen R. Davidson
 * 2013–2014 Virginia A. Lloyd
 * 2014–2015 Anne Elizabeth Dent
 * 2015–2016 Edmund John Seward Anderson of Thorner, Leeds.
 * 2016–2017 Christopher John Brown of Sutton-in-Craven, Keighley.
 * 2017–2018 Dr Terence George Bramall of Harrogate.
 * 2018–2019 Charles Richard Jackson, of Ferrensby, Knaresborough.
 * 2019–2020 Paul David Lawrence of Harrogate.
 * 2020–2021 Jonathan Henry Thornton of Huddersfield.
 * 2021–2022 Clive Roland Lloyd of Luddenden, Halifax
 * 2022–2023 Susan Kitty Baker of Leeds
 * 2023–2024 Zulfiqar Ali Karim of Shipley